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...small burning eyes sunk deep beneath a projecting brow," the man whose caustic sarcasm has caused his opponents to wither, was known to be a Socialist. Only last Summer he introduced a bill to suppress the capitalist system (TIME, July 23). Small wonder, then, that Socialism was the thought uppermost in the minds of the assembled M.P.'s when Philip Snowden appeared on the Treasury Bench...
Fred Stone, famed comedian: "I wrote a letter to my cousin Melville E. Stone, general counsellor of the Associated Press. Said I: 'For several weeks the thought uppermost in my mind has been the fortunate circumstance that we had in the Vice Presidency at the time of the death of President Harding a man of Presidential caliber. . . . Since I last saw you the Dawes report has been made public. ... It seems to me that the plan which General Dawes has worked out will bring stability and peace to Europe and an era of sound prosperity to this country...
...thought uppermost (for several weeks) in Fred Stone's mind...
...urge to consolidate, ever uppermost in the heart of Frank A. Munsey, led to another journalistic union-but not under Mr. Munsey's banner. Without a word of warning, without the usual preliminary tremors of. rumor, it was announced that Ogden M. Reid, owner of the New York Tribune had bought The New York Herald (Mr. Munsey's property since 1920) and that they would be combined on the follow-ing morning. The Paris edition of the Herald was also sold to Mr. Reid...
...industries are as unstable as that which is concerned with the production, refining and distribution of petroleum. It is always either a feast or famine. Until only a few weeks ago, the famine element seemed uppermost; overproduction had created a great surplus of crude oil for the oil companies to carry, prices were declining precipitously, and disaster was frankly anticipated by the trade. But meanwhile the consumption of crude oil and its byproducts, continued to increase. The huge production of automobiles demanded greater amounts of gasoline than ever. Large office buildings and hotels have adopted oil heating systems. Some railroads...