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...loaned to any of our employes who may be temporarily laid off. ... Workers who need their wages in winter months will be given more steady employment through that dull period. . . . We do not regard this as a philanthropic move nor do we have any intention of indulging in any crack-brained theories. It is simply a matter of good business." General Tire & Rubber Co., fifth in its industry,* is the personal creation of President O'Neil. Born in Akron of substantial Irish-Catholic parentage, he went to Holy Cross, played football, studied cotton weaving in a Worcester. Mass., mill...
...started a nationwide discussion of fresh judicial phases of the question. Judge Clark did not come to his momentous conclusion unaided. Local attorneys in the Sprague case were joined by able New York lawyers-Selden Bacon, Julius Henry Cohen, Daniel Florence Cohalan-who since 1927 have been attempting to crack the 18th Amendment from a little-discussed angle-namely, that its ratification by state legislatures was void because it dealt a grant of power to the Federal Government so large that only state conventions of the people themselves could constitutionally approve the transfer. Judge Clark accepted this argument and expanded...
...gets out for a walk. When he was Papal Nuncio in Poland (sent by his predecessor Benedict XV) he made a crony of Josef Pilsudski. a man who craves companionship. Marshal (later dictator) Pilsudski, a stalwart, used to be able to bend silver rubles with his mighty fingers, to crack nuts in his hairy fist Nuncio Ratti could not duplicate those feats. His hands were, and are, a scholar's soft ones. ' Joint diversion of the Marshal and the Nuncio was chess, at which both are adept. The bold Pole favored vigorous attack. The astute Italian shifted...
...shores: of Pelican Lake, 170 mi. west of Duluth, to entertain his friends (among his guests have been Vice President Charles Curtis & son). But they came in such droves that he made it into a resort-Breezy Point-now one of the most elaborate showplaces in Minnesota-A crack marksman (manager of victorious U. S. trap-shooters in the 1924 Olympic Games), he keeps at Pelican Lake his countless trophies and his guns, among them a $2,000 elephant gun. Also he maintains there a zoo. In his editors, Publisher Fawcett insists upon what he calls "the divine spark...
...Smith his rightful place in history," Liberty magazine last week published a collection of testimonials, solicited from 26 outstanding airmen by Aviation Writer Richard Carroll. Under the heading "They Call Him Daddy." appeared the pictures and comments of Atcherly, Byrd, Chamberlin, Cobham, Doolittle, Hawks, Rickenbacker, von Gronau, many another crack flyer-all lifting peans of superlative praise for Kingsford-Smith. Some, like "Al" Williams, called him the "outstand-ing pilot of the age." Others more conservative, like Germany's Herman Koehl, expressed their "greatest admiration." A conspicuous paragraph in the alphabetical list was that beneath the name and photograph...