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On President Roosevelt's mind last week was the Roosevelt Bull Market, now running into its 19th month. To the White House he summoned the two men the New Deal has charged with responsibility for the stockmarket's behavior, Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board...
Meantime, Orin D. Steele, able and vigilant Federal game agent at Cambridge, Md., was receiving anonymous letters asserting that Mr. Chrysler was violating the very conservation laws his Institute aimed to bolster. Because of the motorman's standing as a conservationist, and because he knew how natives envied the...
In 1908, vigilant alumni discovered a Lionel de Jersey Harvard in Plymouth, England. A descendant of John Harvard, he was brought to Harvard in 1911, graduated cum lande in 1915 to be killed in the British Army during the War. Last week his son, Peter Harvard, 19, was imported for...
Closer to home were graver distractions. Butter prices were skyhigh. New Yorkers at Buffalo, where butter was selling at 37? per Ib., were crossing to Fort Erie, Ont., buying the stuff for 24? per Ib. in spite of a vigilant campaign by U. S. customs agents against butter-legging. High...
The World-Telegram soon developed into Mayor LaGuardia's most vigilant critic. And so have Scripps-Howard papers recently delivered stinging attacks against certain aspects of the New Deal, largely through Columnists Raymond Clapper and Westbrook Pegler. Publisher Howard went on record in 1932 as a friend of the...