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...definition Bernard Mannes Baruch is a "practical economist." His theory has been applied in the most hazardous of profit mediums-the stockmarket. But of Mr. Baruch, his old boss. Columnist Hugh Johnson wrote last week: "His effectiveness as a practical economist is suggested by his own magnificent solvency." Last week before the Senate's Special Committee to Investigate Unemployment & Relief Mr. Baruch had a lot to say about his country's solvency, which is currently not magnificent. He took two days to say it, and when he was through his testimony was hailed as the "heaviest...
Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus' gorilla Gargantua the Great, wrote Gargantuan Columnist Heywood Broun three weeks ago, "is the fiercest looking thing I have ever seen on two legs. And probably his power and truculence were all the more impressive because he did look a good deal like a distant relative. No one was allowed to go close to his cage, because Gargantua can reach about five feet through the bars and get a toe hold on a visitor whom he dislikes." Gargantua may not be the world's biggest captive gorilla-since the death of Berlin...
Born in St. Louis in 1888 and a member of the famed Harvard class of 1910 (Columnist Walter Lippmann, Economist Stuart Chase, Radical John Reed, etc.), Eliot left the U. S. in 1914, settled in England, eventually became a British subject...
Best guess as to what had upset Senator Johnson's newly acquired composure was an observation anent Captain Ingersoll's trip by New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock to the effect that he was "expertly informed that, should it at any time serve the interests of the two great democracies, their Navies would automatically complement each other in the Pacific." Added Columnist Krock: "This is the kind of understanding that is hardly more than a wink or a nod, the sort of thing not Mr. Johnson or anyone else can extract from men's inner minds...
Died, Oscar Odd ("O. O.") Mclntyre, widest-read U. S. columnist (New York Day by Day, in 508 papers); four days before his 54th birthday, which would also have been his 30th wedding anniversary; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Successively hotel clerk, reporter, editor, press agent, free-lance columnist. O. O. Mclntyre wrote about Manhattan for village folk-for the people of Gallipolis, Ohio, his home town, among others-in fustian prose, sprinkled with fictional references to the great, first-hand description of accidents, nostalgic contrast of city and village. Sickly for years, he prowled Manhattan for material...