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Chiefly self-made experts who slid fortuitously into their roles, Broadway's critics wield a power shared by no like number of men in any other...
Bryce-Byram Smith, as Mayor, up to last week was a powerless dummy. Such authority as Boss Tom did not wield for himself was vested (since 1926) in rich, famed City Manager Henry F. McElroy and in the City Council. Last week Mayor Smith suddenly announced that for the good of Kansas City, he was taking unto himself the powers placed in Henry McElroy by the city charter...
Robert L. Green '39, captain of the 1938 football team, will wield the gavel at the meeting, which is being sponsored by the Harvard Refugee Committee. Other speakers scheduled are Dean Hanford, and Robert E. Lane '39, chairman of the Committee...
...Interstate & Foreign Commerce), New York's Cullen (No. 2 on Ways & Means, Tammany manager in the House, but tractable), or Virginia's Drewry (Democratic Congressional Committee). In Chicago, Mr. Sabath, who was born in what later became Czechoslovakia, hopefully said: "Whatever power I can wield [as chairman] will be used to see that Chicago gets its share of Federal appropriations...
...representative at the London conference, at which Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy presided, was Albert Gain Black, Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. A drawling, scholarly man whose hair is the color of July wheat. Economist Black, 42, took to farming almost before he could wield a pitchfork, taught agricultural economics at Iowa State College for four years, joined the AAA's inner council in 1935. Well-qualified to expound the ever-normal granary plan to the London delegates, Economist Black nevertheless failed to convince them...