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...capital with the capital of Browning-firearms heirs to start the First Security system which operated 28 banks (now consolidated into twelve) in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming. He became vice president and treasurer of Amalgamated Sugar Co. and headed a construction company which got a big job out of Hoover Dam.* Last week, aged 43, Marriner Eccles came to the Treasury as special assistant to Secretary Morgenthau-to advise him how to finance the greatest peacetime deficit. But Earle Bailie, forced to resign that ticklish job because of Senatorial objections to his Wall Street connections (TIME, Jan. 15), stayed on long...
...come to cherish, is the projected hydro-electric power development on the St. Lawrence in New York State. The President prodded the matter along last week by urging the Senate to pass the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Deep Waterway Treaty with Canada, necessary preliminary step before any dam can be built...
Four students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have been sent to direct excavation work for C. W. A. projects. Frank L. Thomas 1G, and Kenneth B. Disher 1G, have been sent to the Tennessee Valley where archeological sites are soon to be flooded by dam construction and therefore be unavailable for further archeological investigation. Gene M. Stirling 3G, and Erik K. Reed 3G, are stationed in Florida. It is expected that still more men will answer the Government's call for archeological authorities for this work...
...hang out his shingle. In another four years he was directing the Democratic campaign which made Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross (now Director of the U. S. Mint) Wyoming's Governor. Finally, a Democratic Na tional Committeeman, he lobbied in Washington for Wyoming's gigantic Casper-Alcova Dam project which was finally approved last summer by Presi dent Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 7). As Postmaster General Farley's No. 1 assistant, Joe O'Mahoney had the Presi dent's ear. Now that he is in the Senate his friends expect him to take his place among...
...Billingsley Hill of Waterville, Wash. Democrat Hill, who got to Congress in 1923 by plumping for the soldier bonus and promising to "soak the rich," is not so radical as he sounded ten years ago. Today he is even rated as a "conservative with progressive leanings." The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington and the Hill Bill to boost tariffs to compensate for depreciated foreign currencies have been his most noted concerns...