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...unwritten law of succession in the American Bankers Association is that at each annual election the second vice president shall accede to the first vice presidency and the first vice president shall accede to the presidency. U. S. Banking thus picks its official spokesman two years in advance. Many things have happened in the last two years?particularly to Rudolf S. Hecht, chairman of New Orleans' Hibernia National Bank, who was elected second vice president of the ABA in the dark autumn...
...move the nation's heavy industries once more into open country. Commander Hoover used exhortation. Generalissimo Roosevelt tried a more tangible method of as sault. In May he drew his plans. In June Congress approved them. In July organization began. Last week was launched the great housing drive whose unwritten slogan is "Recovery or Bust...
...airplane. Against his will he spent two sweltering nights in Omaha, at last chartered a special plane to take him to Portland, Ore. to make a similar speech. Two more speeches were in his brief case, one for Los Angeles, Calif., the other for Chicago. Between them lay an unwritten and far more precious plan?two weeks of rest somewhere in the mountains...
When Baritone John Charles Thomas skipped a concert in Dallas, Tex., rather than sacrifice his fee, hot arguments arose all over the U. S. concerning an artist's unwritten obligations (TIME, Jan. 22). Texans called Thomas a poor sport, sympathized with Manager Harriet Bacon MacDonald who had been unable to meet her contract. After the Thomas episode Soprano Rosa Ponselle and Contralto Sigrid Onegin refused to go to Dallas...
Newsreaders who wonder at all about Gossipmonger Walter Winchell, wonder why they never read of his being sued for libel. The prime reason is the unwritten law of U. S. journalism, which restrains newspapers from airing each other's libel troubles. Another and more astonishing reason is that only three suits, of which two have not yet reached court, have ever been pressed against Columnist Winchell. Last week, for the first time in his professional career, he found himself confronted by a jury verdict for damages. It was caused not by any peeping into the love lives...