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...lawyer by training, Banker Aldrich got down to legal brass tacks with specific changes which he thought should be made in the Banking Act of 1933. His proposals had not only a strong legal but a strong moral tenor, natural to a brother-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr. Important Aldrich suggestions for the uplift of banking...
...solidly documented by weather records for months, years, decades. Dr. Abbot studies solar radiation from his Washington station while his men study it from such farflung vantage points as Table Mountain, Calif.; Mt. Montezuma, Chile; Mount St. Catherine in the Sinai Peninsula. With the help of a "brass brain" (a periodometer or mechanical calculator) which he invented to co-ordinate chaotic masses of data, he delved into the temperature and precipitation records of Bismarck, N. Dak., far back into the last century. In them he looked for cycles of 22 years, because that length of time represents two eleven-year...
...Nice & Lovely" Next day the Senators let Mr. Fitzpatrick tell his own story. As a small-town Kansas lawyer he became general counsel for Prairie in 1908, rose to president by 1928. Like Harry Sinclair in Independence, Sam Fitzpatrick played in the brass band in Sedan, Kans. In later years in Independence he lived near Harry Sinclair, always rated a standing salute when he spoke in public. But last week Independence citizens, shocked by the $300.000 gift, talked about how Sam Fitzpatrick had sold out their home-town company...
There is great good humor and nonchalance in the way Raoul Walsh directed The Bowery. It is a gay cartoon of a place and a period, as flagrant as a copy of the Police Gazette and as forthright as a set of brass knuckles. Good shot: a terrific fight with ashcans, fists, brickbats, blackjacks, between Chuck Connors' fire company and Steve Brodie's, while the hopeless Chinese in a burning tenement squeal for help...
...honored Volunteer Fire Companies will climb to the top of Telegraph Hill to pay a last honor to Lily: the public dedication of a gleaming 181-ft. concrete shaft erected in her honor. At its base will be the thing Lily loved best in the world: the rickety, brass-trimmed Knickerbocker Fire Engine...