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...resolution through in that time?and with it the President's tax proposals. Next day the nation's headlines bannered the news: a vast and unprecedented tax bill was to be made the law of the land in about 120 hours. Senator Harrison spent the night roughing out a draft of the measure the President wanted so badly. He told the Senate that he did not think there would be time for any hearings. His Finance Committee refused to approve the bill until he could fill in the draft and support it with detailed Treasury estimates. While Senators and Representatives...
...Swaine of the famed Manhattan firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood revealed himself as one of the two real authors of that bankruptcy legislation. Other was prodigious Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. Lawyer Swaine, who hardly saw eye to eye with the young Braintruster, suavely declared that the final draft represented "blending" and '-'compromises" of their two views...
...translation, it was discovered that a tentative translation of most of the text had already been completed by .Professor Andrew Bongiorno of Oberlin College, working with Professor James Harvey Rogers, who only thought of translation rights when the work was almost finished. After more negotiations Professor Bongiorno's draft was turned over to Translator Livingston, and five years later a faithful translation of the text, of the footnotes that made up a third of the entire work of 2,033 pages, was completed. More than a year was required for reading proof, checking references, making the 100-page index...
...seated at the controls of an early (1913) Wright pusher. The young man was Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, son of a wealthy Philadelphia brewer. Popular as an amateur automobile racer and pioneer sportsman pilot, Early Bird Bergdoll was to become notorious four years later as the No. 1 U. S. draft-dodger during the War. Grover Cleveland Loening says Grover Cleveland Bergdoll's reason for evading the draft was that he was refused a commission in the U. S. Air Service...
Probably the rarest item in the collection is a rough draft of "Tristram" which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1927. The poet's writing is so minute that a magnifying glass is necessary to distinguish the individual words. The earlier version has been considerably changed, and many stanzas have been completely deleted. The final draft is on view and hardly a change has been made in this. It would almost appear that Robinson wrote complete verses without alteration. This final draft is dated June 2, 1925, and has been loaned to the Library by Jules LeDoux, his New York...