Word: welled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chairman of the metals subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee is Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, onetime attorney for U. S. Steel Corp. Well he knew what the steelman wanted. Also on the job was Pennsylvania's Joseph R Grundy, arch-lobbyist for manufacturers The sequence of recent events: 1) The Finance Committee by a vote of 7-to-4 first rearranged the manganese ore tariff on metal content, in effect increasing the duty above the 1 cent per Ib. level. 2) From Moscow came the announcement that U. S. Steel Corp. had signed a five-year contract...
...Francisco. William or Jake Fleagle (alias Holden), 35, 5 ft. 11 in., well-dressed professional gambler, for a train robbery at Martinez and a bank robbery at Lamar, Col., in which four men were killed. Reward: $17,000. Warning: "Desperate...
Alcohol. "The greatest single source of liquor supply today is the alcohol diverted illegally from concerns bearing the stamp of respectability in the form of a government permit. . . . To trace leaks has become well-nigh impossible. The Government's policy has been like pouring BB shot on the floor with one hand and trying to pick it up with the other." Commercial alcohol production in 1918: 50,000,000 gals.; in 1928: 90,000,000 gals. Smuggling: "The leak second in importance is border smuggling. Illicit importation seeks the low moral levels of our border service. . . . Detroit...
...last week to the pitcher's box in Baker Field, Philadelphia. It was the eighth inning of the second game of a double-header between Philadelphia and St. Louis. Philadelphia had won the first game. Philadelphia was leading now, 9 to 8. Philadelphia, for whom he had pitched well for seven years, had in 1918 released Pitcher Alexander to Chicago, whence in 1926 he went to St. Louis. But there was another, keener reason why Pitcher Alexander wanted to pull this game out of the fire, which he proceeded to do by holding Philadelphia scoreless for four innings while...
...reporter, for the last three years an associate editor of Collier's. About The Mentor, what its plans are, he will talk with hopeful enthusiasm. About new Editor Leamy he is reticent. "I'm still an untried man at this job," he explains. "But The Mentor? Well, you know, we thought it best to go through with a big change all at once to keep it up with the changing times. . . . You might call the new Mentor a nonfiction, up-to-date magazine for people who want to learn about various matters, but who want to be amused...