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Meanwhile another draft on "Little Dollfuss' " stiff neck was the rumor sweeping through Austria, that the 2O-year-old Archduke Otto von Habsburg, pretender to the throne, was either in the country or on the Swiss frontier, waiting for a call. Three newspapers were promptly suppressed for hinting at the story in print...
...DRAFT OF XXX CANTOS-Ezra Pound-Farrar & Rinehart...
...first & foremost. Much mentioned before election but not to be found on last week's slate were the national names of Bernard Mannes Baruch, Owen D. Young, Newton Diehl Baker, Albert Cabell Ritchie, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Carter Glass. Even his two ranking Cabinet officers Mr. Roosevelt had to "draft" (his own word) into Federal service...
...showing clients how to reduce their income taxes. Three years (1917-20) as Commissioner of Internal Revenue qualified him for this practice. Before that he was President Wilson's First Assistant Postmaster General. He arrived in Washington as a Congressional secretary, demonstrated a rare talent with figures, helped draft the Underwood Tariff Act (1913). Earlier in South Carolina, he had served in the State Legislature where, although an ardent Dry and devout Methodist, he offered legislation creating the notorious South Carolina liquor dispensary system. Never since has he ceased to talk of the failure of that system...
...silent run that was taking $6,000,000 per day from Baltimore banks. Declared Governor Ritchie: "There is no justification for the withdrawals. . . . My determination is that first, last and all the time the interests of the depositors must be protected." To that end he worked night & day to draft and get the Legislature to pass what was rapidly becoming a standard bill among the states for the division of liquid and frozen assets, with withdrawals limited to the former. Work & play went on in Maryland about as usual...