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...Milnor felt satisfied, even triumphant, because the Stabilization Corp. had at last stabilized something. The Chicago wheat price had stayed where the Farm Board thought it ought to, 18? to 20? above Winnipeg and other world markets. The Board had turned its dismal failure of last Winter (TIME, March 10 et seq.) into a signal success. Wan but glad Mr. Milnor told newsgatherers: "I know that not only in grain circles, among millers, bankers and businessmen, but in Washington, a new attitude toward this action has developed overnight. If the Farm Board never did another thing, it will have justified...
...days later Beaverbrook papers stirred all Britain with a triumphant report of doings the night before at St. Stephen's Club, a Conservative sanctum just across the street from Parliament where history has often been made. With a brewer, Colonel John Gretton, in the chair, 44 Conservative M.P.s were announced to have signed the following manifesto to the Conservative party whips...
Enemies pointed out that the vote lines up more than one-quarter of the Conservative Party against its Leader, a most ominous percentage. Next day the Beaverbrook cohorts were again in triumphant fettle, had a new reason why the Leader should resign...
...mainly due to his efforts that Wilson talked in 1917 of a "united, independent, and autonomous Poland." It was he who became Prime Minister of his native land in 1919. He shall be long remembered for giving the devotion of genius to a cause that he helped make triumphant, to an art which he helped make magnificent...
...reason to be proud. Gillette Safety Razor Co. is the undisputed world-leader in the industry. But also justifiably proud was another inventor, likewise a razor-maker: Henry Jaques Gaisman, founder and head of AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. Inc. Last week Mr. Gaisman brought to what seemed a triumphant conclusion the corporate battle between his company and mighty Gillette...