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...financier. The story (to correct the Long-Coughlin estimate of Mr. Baruch's "influence" in Wall Street) : He had yearned to own the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, had been thwarted by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Baruch confirmed the story: "As a youngster in South Carolina, I used to sit beside the railroad tracks and throw pebbles after the trains as they passed. I even began to dream of owning the road. In later life I still wanted it because I considered it a great property. In the 1920's I was negotiating...
...elements of a rip-snorting class-conflict were present in the little town of Marked Tree in January when a youngster of 24 named Ward H. Rodgers, on the executive committee of the Union, addressed an outdoor gathering of hungry, disgruntled and dispossessed tenant farmers. Ward Rodgers, a Socialistic Texan with theological degrees from Vanderbilt and Boston Universities, was already in bad odor with the landlord class because he had been calling Negroes "mister." And as an instructor in FERA's adult education service, he had been mixing Karl Marx with the ABC's. He was quoted...
...whereas Jimmy had been allowed to develop like any ordinary child. As a result when the twins were sent home for good, "conditioned" Johnny was a fearless little acrobat with a personality far in advance of his years and "unconditioned"' Jimmy was just a plain laughing, crying, scary youngster (TIME, July 30). Last week Dr. Myrtle Byram McGraw, assistant director of the Normal Child Development Clinic where the Woods twins were under scientific control from their 20th day, explained: "Jimmy and Johnny have both, I think, lost out in their home environment and, while that is disappointing...
Rush Holt's 30th birthday falls on June 19 and although the huge Democratic majority could, if it would, seat him, it knows only too well the national howl the Republicans would set up about the New Deal caring nought for the Constitution. Hence Majority Leader Robinson ordered Youngster Holt to bide his time. In June, if Congress is still in session, the majority will vote Holt his seat. Meantime he will cast no votes, but he, too, has a seat with his name on it, an office and clerks, and the expectation of $833 a month...
...Andrews and James Lippitt Clark, another youngster who later became a crack field man for the Museum, went out to Amagansett where the carcass had been beached. The whalers took the blubber and the scientists bought the rest for $3,200. The skeleton remained imbedded in 50 tons of flesh. The weather was bitter cold...