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...last month. As deputy chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank he has given far more time to stabilizing the U. S. financial structure than to Europe's. It was in this capacity that President Hoover asked him to go down for two of the post-stock-crash Confidence Conferences. Mr. Young went, of course. He has never refused Herbert Hoover anything except, in 1928, his vote. He would hate to refuse Herbert Hoover anything and Mr. Hoover knows it. Regardless of what the Democrats do to make or unmake Mr. Young as presidential timber, it is unlikely...
This new tube at present uses only 250,000 volts, which flick electrons off the cathode at tremendous speed. The electrons rush through a stream of mercury vapor ions overloaded with four charges of positive electricity. Ions and electrons crash and reinforce their speeds, giving the stupendous effect of 1,000,000 volts. If the 1,000,000 volts available at Caltech were used initially, the effect would be four times as powerful. If, as the physicists hope, they can load the mercury ions five or six times, they expect to get the equivalent of five or six million volts...
Jesse Livermore, Wall Street operator, famed Bear, having received threats against his life following the stockmarket crash, made known that he had hired an armed bodyguard...
Washington Crash. For a pre-Christmas surprise to friends and family, three men planned a flight from Washington, D. C., to Massachusetts-Representative William Kirk Kaynor, who had never flown before, to visit his family; Stanley B. Lowe, his secretary, to get first sight of his newborn child; Arthur A. McGill, a friend, to remarry. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison loaned them the trimotored Fokker which he always used himself. Pilot was Capt. Harry A. Dinger, "who had more experience in piloting trimotored transports than any other pilot in the Army Air Corps." Mechanic was Buck Private Vladimir...
Last week gridironing was again ushered in with a crash...