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...here to button this thing up," barked National Recovery Administrator Johnson one day last week as he hopped out of an Army plane at Detroit. Awaiting him at General Motors Building was a deadlocked board of directors of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Two hours later General Johnson marched out of the board room, his pocket bulging with a trade code for the automobile industry which was expected to put 60,000 additional men to work. "That's what I came for and that's what I got." said he. "My one regret is that Henry Ford...
...JAMES H. BUTTON. M. D. Chicago...
...refused to loan an additional ?1,000,000 to Mr. Morgenthau's Greek Refugee Settlement Commission until reminded that the Greek Government could withdraw a ?2,000,000 gold deposit from the Bank of England and take other steps. While Mr. Morgenthau outlined these steps Mr. Norman petulantly buttoned his vest, snapped "You know too much!" as THE BRONX'S "UNCLE HENRY" . . . was noticed. he popped the last button into place and authorized the loan...
...Kelso. Wash., Albert Seifert. bank robber, was shot in the back and captured by C. A. Button, bank president, while he was escaping with a sack of silver. But C. A. Button was not the hero, said Robber Seifert. It was P. E. Federson. the cashier. "He outsmarted me when he put so much silver into the sack ... so heavy I couldn't run with...
...cloudy at any of the observatories the director will press a button and transmit the signal to the Exposition. W. A. Calder, tutor in Astronomy, who has been doing research work in astronomy with the photo-electric cell, has invented and set up the apparatus that will be used on the 24-inch reflector at Oak Ridge...