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...respecter of persons, a flu bug bit Franklin Roosevelt last week, while other bugs attacked Secretaries Stephen Early and "Missy" Le Hand. The bedded President certified his plan to board U. S. S. Houston this week and view the Navy's war game restfully under tropical sun (see p. 12). He also managed to get some work done...
Whether it is actually "record-breaking crowds" that bring about these periodical hold-over weeks, or whether there is something mysterious going on behind the scenes, is a question that has always intrigued us. Strange it is that the hold-over bug seems so frequently to strike several theatres at once; it is as if some deep, dark conspiracy were being hatched, either in Boston or else further West. On the other hand, the Boston palaces are notoriously jealous of their prestige,--as concerned with public relations as a Freshman on the Dean's List; perhaps the whole thing...
...Potato Bug. Franklin Roosevelt and his late, trusted Secretary Louis McHenry Howe knew Robert Fechner in World War days when he represented his machinists' union in negotiations with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt. Their friendship continued, and on his 57th birthday (March 22, 1933) Mr. Fechner got a telephone call from Louis Howe suggesting a quick trip to Washington. Tied up with union business and unaware that CCC legislation had been introduced, he put off going for a week. When he did visit the White House, he saw there the original (and largely unchanged) chart...
Among the swarming professional Brain Trusters, CCC's director was as a potato bug among dragonflies. "Why, most of my clerks are better educated than I am," Robert Fechner used to say. He quit school when he was 16, worked in a railroad machine shop, then wandered to Mexico, Central and South America and back again as an itinerant machinist. He fought through a losing general strike in 1901 for the 9-hour day, was elected in 1913 to the general executive board of the A. F. of L. machinists' union. He sandwiched in a year...
Jowly, serious Teacher Stevenson was soon bitten by the insurance bug. Said he: "Rarely do we have a conjunction of something so economically and socially sound and so mathematically perfect." He became a salesman ten years ago when he was made manager of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. home office agency in Philadelphia, wrote as much as $3,000,000 worth of policies in one year. Last week when President William Kingsley moved up to the chairmanship, 52-year-old Vice President Stevenson succeeded...