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...bold promise to take the Government out of private business after the War helped the Republican party win the 1920 election. Twelve years passed but few U. S. businessmen could see where that campaign pledge had been fulfilled by the G. O. P. In good times, they loudly complained, it was difficult enough to buck the U.S. as a rival producer. In bad times it was ruinously impossible. Last May the Democratic House of Representatives voted to investigate the whole problem of Government competition with private enterprise. Appointed was a special committee, chairmanned by Representative Joseph B. Shannon, Kansas City...
With smaller resources than his father, Adrian Iselin has the reputation among yachtsmen of being equally adroit, if a shade less bold. He has owned Victory sloops, six-and eight-metre boats and another star, made of mahogany, the Snapper which he sold when light cedar hulls were coming into fashion. With his Ace, built in 1924, he won the International Championship in 1925, the Bacardi Cup in 1927, innumerable minor trophies which, in his house at East Williston (L. I.) make a respectable glitter beside the huge silvery bonfire of the cups he inherited when his father died...
...worth your bold undertaking...
...Professor Fortescu, president of the Rumanian High School Teachers' Association, had not accused His Majesty of mere immorality, royal peccadillos being taken for granted at Bucharest. Instead Professor Fortescu had made himself spokesman for a charge which has smoldered in Rumanian public opinion these many months. In a bold speech, three weeks ago, he accused his Sovereign of packing the highest offices of the State, the Civil Service and the Municipality of Bucharest "with men whose chief qualification, if it can be called such, is that they are favorites of the King...
...Commission, has been the electric light & power business. Three years ago the Trade Commission focused attention on the vigorous propaganda work which the National Electric Light Association, controlled by disgraced Samuel Insull, was carrying on in schools and colleges (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Later the Insull crash threw into bold relief such practices as the looting of operating companies by holding companies, the publication of misleading financial statements and unscrupulous lobbying carried on by certain N. E. L. A. members...