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...closing of all the security and commodity exchanges of Chicago and New York had been announced- all except the Livestock Exchange in Chicago, for livestock is perishable, its distribution must go on. By that hour the three-block-long factory of the American Bank Note plant in The Bronx was roaring with activity, with police at the doors to keep the inquisitive away. At 1 :oo p.m. 100,000 citizens whose banks were closed saw Citizen Roosevelt transformed to President...
...Senators or Representatives who sell their votes for money . . ." wins undue respect from the office appended to the by line. If the Senate cannot command respect even from its own subordinates, its prestige in the country at large must suffer. And when all this is added to the protracted Bronx cheer which the nation's press has directed at the defenceless lame ducks, there is small wonder that the Senatorial ire is aroused...
...Bronx, N. Y. because he thought his name was "a drawback socially and sounded un-American," Hubertus Ralph Theodore Roosevelt Kretzschmar had it changed to Ralph Theodore Roosevelt...
...conferences were unable to get the building ball rolling against the dogged opposition of bankers holding delinquent mortgages, landlords with vacant property. The R. F. C. whose friends boasted that it would soon sweep slums out of existence has authorized one building loan of $3,957,000 to a Bronx, N. Y. concern but not one cent in cash has yet been made in advance to commence construction...
Like the little auk, the murre feeds on ocean Crustacea, starves inland. Last week Dr. William Reid Blair, director of New York's Bronx Zoo, thought the murres' death flight might be caused by a cyclical failure in their food supply...