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...Conference Delegate Sam McReynolds. Because it is obviously impossible to receive all the ladies attached to all the delegations the Lord Chamberlain's office announced that none of the ladies of the World Economic Conference would be presented. But Miss McReynolds had already received her "command" to attend. She had bought her dress and the feathers for her hair. She had learned how to curtsey. After heated conferences Miss McReynolds was, by the Lord Chamberlain's special intervention, presented. Also an exception was Chief Delegate Cordell Hull's niece, Mrs. Paul Hays...
Volume. For three months the towns & cities of the U. S. have heard with rising pleasure the raucous music of the whistle. It is national recovery at an unprecedented pace, a strident prelude to National Recovery by Executive Command (see p. 12.). The percussions have been abundantly recorded in the cool abstractions that are indexes. Last week electric power production soared (for the sixth consecutive time), to 91.7% of normal. Steel production, most potent barometer of basic industrial activity, surged up another 3% to 47% of capacity, more than three times the rate last March. Bank clearings went...
...government have about it the strict sanction of legality. The emergency we are facing demands immediate action on the part of government if it is to be met successfully. The time-consuming processes of Congress, the divergent counsel of that body, must be replaced by the quick, decisive command of one man--intelligently responsive to the necessity of adapting his course to changes in circumstances...
...Airships should be assured "continuity of personnel." Only a highly trained officer who already had commanded a training ship should be given command of a regular airship. (This was prompted by the Navy's present routine of sending airship officers to sea; and by the fact that the late Captain McCord had never commanded an airship prior to the Akron. On the day the committee's report was published the Navy Department ordered Lieut.-Commander Herbert V. Wiley, Akron survivor...
...Dashiell Hammett had written Grand Hotel, the result might have been something like Sleepers East. Author Nebel cannot command Hammett's sulphurous and suspense-laden style, but he has fitted together a first-rate melodrama, whose plot is more cunningly joined than Grand Hotel's, its suspense and climax better managed. Sleepers East is headed for a brisk trip, with Hollywood one of its way-stations...