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...desk by his duties, though he has not played polo since the 1933 bank moratorium. Now 42, stocky, stoutish, convivial, he romps through his work, has plenty of time for such fun as golf, tennis, visits to Pebble Beach, the snowy Sierras, Tahiti. His home is a 103-acre chunk of his father's original estate equipped with an Italian villa, swimming pool, squash courts, garage with a Cadillac and two Oldsmobiles. Son Crocker also goes in for civic virtue, helped establish the San Francisco Museum of Art, for a while helped run Californians, Inc., booster organization...
...picture is not a pretty one, honeycombed as it is with special privileges, rottenness, and graft. But the finishing touches are yet to be added. News from Washington indicates that the "veterans" (many of whom almost reached the Atlantic scaboard) are determined to slice off their last chunk of federal funds by demanding immediate payment of certificates which fall...
...soft Chunk, chunk sounded from the press benches as pneumatic tubes carried down to the press room below the news that the Supreme Court was about to pass on the AAAct in a test case brought by the Government against a New England textile mill regarding the cotton processing tax (TIME, Dec. 23 et ante). In slow precise tones, seldom consulting the written opinion that lay before him, Mr. Justice Roberts proceeded to outline the law and the nature of the case. For some minutes none of the hearers in the crowded courtroom knew which way the decision would...
...Chunk . . . chunk . . . chunk, chunk. The pneumatic tubes shot the news to a waiting world. AAA was dead as NRA. Once again the Supreme Court had knocked a prime prop from under the New Deal...
Leaving the White House four days before his 78th birthday, Virginia's Senator Carter Glass spied slim, boyish-looking Associated Pressman Francis Marion Stephenson reaching toward a snowpile. As quick of arm as of wit, Senator Glass picked a chunk of icy snow off the running board of his car, heaved it accurately at "Little Stevie," jumped in the car. Chortled he: "I landed a good...