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...When he comes out of the combat without wounds, without disability, a veteran has no right to raid the Treasury perpetually because he was called into the contest-called in under draft, too, when it was a question of being shot here or shot at abroad...
...rally industry into line was General Hugh Samuel Johnson, West Pointer, lawyer, boys' book writer, associate of Bernard Marines Baruch and originator and administrator of the War-time selective draft. Like Col. Sawyer. General Johnson, as Administrator for Industrial recovery, was given the counsel of the Secretaries of Commerce. Agriculture, Labor; Attorney General. Director of the Budget, Federal Trade Commissioner Chairman. These in turn began last week to draw keymen from the ranks of economists, businessmen, labor leaders to make up advisory boards. The Industrial Advisory Board appointed by Secretary Roper included: General Motors President Alfred Pritchard Sloan...
Biggest news to the banking community was the guarantee (miscalled "insurance" ) of bank deposits, popped into the bill not because Senator Glass wanted it or approved of it but because (seeing that Congress intended to pass it) he preferred to draft the guarantee scheme himself and make it as harmless as possible. The scheme was no simple compromise...
Dusk was coming as the Vagabond descended from his airy left to the hot street where the tar oozed around his thin shoes and covered over the spots he had neglected to polish. Now, as he turned down Plympton Street to the river, a hot draft of air singed his eyelashes, and as he passed the back doors of restaurants the smell of greases caught on his coat, till the next gust blew them off again, and he hurried on. At the river he would find a plot of grass from which he might dangle his feet into the water...
...Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick was the third party. Now he had to write a speech that was not for Germany alone, but for the entire world to hear. Hours passed, the door remained locked. At 4 a. m. the tired secretary emerged to say that the first draft had been completed...