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Senator Tobey started things at a secret session of the Senate subcommittee investigating the Reconstruction Finance Corp. (TIME, March 5). The President, he told the Senators, had telephoned him last month to warn that the White House "had the goods on a great many" Congressmen who had taken fees for influencing RFC loans. This sounded like either the makings of a first-rate scandal or a brazen attempt to head off the congressional investigation, and Tobey hounded the White House for proof. Three weeks later, he said, the President called back to admit he had no such proof...
...customary to warn that concentration in Economics is not going to teach a man how to run a bank or how to make a lot of money in business. But the point bears repeating...
...give the temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, etc. in the spot where it is taking observations. The batteries that power the Grasshopper's radio enable it to transmit every three hours for more than 15 days. When the batteries start to run down, they send a special signal to warn the receiving operator that the Grasshopper is about...
...forgot himself only once. In Macon, Ga., unable to buy a newspaper in the colored waiting room, he crossed over to the white side to get one. The agent, cursing, ran out to warn him back-and Rowan returned his curses. When the agent ran to the telephone, Rowan, fearing that there might be trouble, fled from town by taxicab...
From the opening bell, ex-Sailor Murphy came boring in like a brawling longshoreman, trying to land the knockout left that has polished off 50 out of 58 opponents, and made Murphy one of the top contenders for the light-heavyweight title. The referee had to warn Murphy against his grab-and-hit tactics (clutching with his right glove while pounding with his left). But Matthews was taking care of himself. He boxed with Marquess of Queensberry manners, but kept thumping powerful lefts & rights to Murphy's body. Later, when Murphy continued to bore in with a splendid disregard...