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...America, the bitterest trade competitor of the U. S. in Argentina at present is no totalitarian state but a democratic nation of traders, Great Britain. Although overtaken in many Latin American countries by the U. S. and pressed hard in others, in Argentina Britain still holds a handful of trump cards and by last week it became apparent that she is playing them in a manner calculated to take all the tricks...
Third on the program was the smart, husky, popular encyclopedia who calls himself "the best damned no-trump player in the United States," Economist Leon Henderson, who used to work for the Russell Sage Foundation until he was taken to Washington for NRA, after the death of which he buzzed around aimlessly until the Janizariat learned his worth and put him in as TNEC's executive secretary. Through his swift and durable head must pass all the data presented to the Committee, timed and spaced for maximum clarity and effect. He summed up for his economist colleagues, raising...
...conservative President Frank Dan kicked Elisha out of his $6,500 job in the company and banished him from the family. Last month, when bitter old Frank Dan died, he left Elisha a mere $100. Scarcely was the Waterman ink dry on the will when Elisha quietly played the trump card he had held up his sleeve for 13 poverty-stricken years as dishwasher, wine steward and hack writer. While the rest of the Waterman family sat around in speechless amazement, he not only returned but took undisputed control of the $4,500,000 (estimated) Waterman business...
President Roosevelt was more interested in party unity in Iowa than in the primary's outcome. Two days before the polls opened, he suddenly was able to play a political trump almost as big as the Hopkins endorsement. To his friend, Lawyer Ed G. Dunn of Mason City, came this telegram...
Next day, when a vote was finally taken, Mr. Wheeler's canny amendment was beaten by an even smaller vote than its predecessor-43-to-39. By this time, however, to offset its dwindling majority, the Administration bloc had found a new trump card in the form of charges that a good part of the pressure against the bill had been generated by a high-powered lobby financed by Publisher Frank Gannett. Convening his Lobby Investigation Committee for the first time since he succeeded Hugo Black as its chairman, Indiana's Sherman Minton quickly produced a Dr. Edward...