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Your Man of the Year designation is good; but why not double it with Saint of the Year, in the sense in which you sometimes use that word...
...Winston-Salem (where Voit Gilmore lives) all helped him. In October he drove up to Washington, following a barrage of telegrams and letters, and made life miserable for White House Secretary Marvin Mclntyre until three weeks later, having industriously backed Mr. Roosevelt into a corner, he received word from Mclntyre that the President would really come. Voit Gilmore then had to rush around raising $350 expense money. He told his hard-working mother (whom he calls "Bimble") that he felt as though he had "landed a whale on a trout hook." At last, this week, came the great day. Voit...
...Monopoly" was the sure-fire political expletive which "Tommy-the-Cork" Corcoran put upon the loud tongues of Janizaries Bob Jackson and Harold Ickes when he pushed them out to make speeches just a year ago, in defense of the Administration after the arrival of Depression II. The word was misleading. What the Janizaries were really talking about was "oligo-poly"-selling by a few-based on statistical studies of busy-brained Economist Leon Henderson, who predicted the crash of October 1937 the spring before. He contended then that greedy Business, by raising prices too soon and too fast, would...
...Queen Mary last week, they said his racket had been bonds of the Philippine Railway Co. When the bonds were down around $10, he got himself appointed chairman of the bondholders' protective committee. To boost the bonds, the Federals said, he flew to Manila and from there flashed word that he was getting the Philippine Commonwealth to take the issue over at $50 or maybe $65. The bonds shot up to $31 last January and February, crashed when President Manuel Quezon categorically denied his Government was buying them. SEC found that speculators-for-the-rise had lost about...
After receiving a letter from his son on Wednesday, the senior Myerson flew out to Utah to join him, Mrs. Myerson revealed last night. Her first direct word from him since his disappearance last Thursday came yesterday when young Myerson called her by long distance, said "Hello, mother; this is Bob, I'm fine," and hung...