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...reformer." Both as a reformer and as a millionaire he should prove useful to Mr. LaFollette. Immediately after the selection, this Committee met. It decided that the LaFollette-Wheeler ticket would be known as "Progressive." It rejected the Bull Moose as a Party symbol. It decided to avoid entirely the use of animals. Instead, it chose the Liberty Bell as a Party symbol. It then set about organization. The men whom it chose were the best professionals in the field. A drive was set up for a campaign fund of some $3,000,000-. Henry L. Rosenfelt, formerly a director...
...avoid increasing taxation by avoiding new Government expenses...
...never by any chance deposits it in his own bank-if he has one. This is partly due to the fact that French law only allows him 24 hours to make legal declaration of default on checks and commercial bills. The Government has proposed, in order to help avoid further inflation, to popularize the check by passing...
Scarcely a painter in all the history of Art has been so vilified, so passionately abhorred as Paul Cezanne (1839-1906). The salons were closed to him; his private exhibitions were succès de scandale; through connivance with the heirs, the Louvre managed to avoid owning the three paintings by him in the Caillebotte collection...
There has been agitation in London to drop the Bank of England's rate to 3½ or under to meet New York's cut, and thereby avoid losing financial business to America. More experienced bankers, on the other band, declare this would simply inflate the pound sterling further, and that if the Bank rate is changed at all, it should be moved upwards rather than down...