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...call. . . . The Heimwehr thank him and promise him their united support if he continues with the same energy toward the same goal." Little Dollfuss, knowing that he must have the support of the Great Powers for his new Constitution before he dare present it formally to Austria, popped the draft text into his pocket last week, hopped for Geneva to lay his plans before the representatives of Britain, France and Italy attending the League of Nations' 14th Assembly. If any further evidence was needed of the mounting power of Emil Fey, it came that day. Repeatedly in the past...
There is a rumor that the first draft of a cover for Lampy's Freshman number called for a few alterations. The central figure, one hears, bore a starling resemblance to one James B. Conant...
...Stanco, who led the fight for free oil prices, it was a bitter defeat. He had seen Sococal, often a maverick in the Standard family, stampede to the price-fixers, drawing Sohio with it. He had seen his $100,000-a-year vice president James Moffett resign to help draft the code. And last week he saw Price-fixer Moffett go on the P. C. C. as one of the NRA's three representatives, saw Presidents Kingsbury of Sococal and Holliday of Sohio go on as representatives of the industry. Only other company committeemen were Presidents Reeser of Barnsdall...
...them to reinforce the present border guards. The Hilfspolizei are specially picked members of the officially unarmed anti-Nazi Heimwehr who have been armed and enrolled in the national government. Because of South Austrian murmurings that the Tyrol was playing too large a part in Heimwehr affairs, this latest draft was chosen from all districts of Austria...
...over-the-counter broker, was listed in the Security Dealers of North America redbook. Though he operated chiefly in the Midwest, his favorite trick was to wire a Manhattan broker for a bid on a block of bonds. Whatever was bid he promptly accepted, then mailed the bonds draft attached to a Manhattan bank, received his money long before the broker sniffed a rat. In New York State a seller of hot goods has virtually the same legal status as a thief. But in Minnesota and many another State, the fence can plead ignorance. Thus for years Fence Connolly...