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...House. A whip has the difficult job of rounding up his party's followers and having them on the floor when every important vote is taken. Representative William A. Oldfield, of Arkansas, just entering upon his 16th year in the House, is whip for the Democrats. The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado. In the voting on the tax reduction bill in the House, the Democrats succeeded in substituting the Garner surtax rates for those of the Mellon plan. Later the Garner rates were stricken out (when...
...married Miss Millicent Rogers, of Manhattan, who was generally considered a likely heir to many Standard Oil millions. The Daily News, Manhattan gum chewers' sheetlet, made a series of grand stories out of what it termed "Count's Gold Tinted Love" (TIME, Jan. 21). It performed a feat for its kind of journal, a feat that almost challenged William Randolph Hearst to equal it. Doubtless, the News chuckled. But last week the Hearst press began to laugh last and best. It began to publish serially: "HOW I WOOED AND WON THE $40,000,000 ROGERS HEIRESS" By Count...
...versatility of a metropolitan daily. How can so much news from all over the world, so many features, and such a variety of photographs be gathered together so quickly, arranged in such readable form, and sold on the streets for a few pennies? To the layman, such a feat seems almost as miraculous as a tale from the Arabian Nights or one of the fanciful romances of H. G. Wells...
...Armistice, Bethlehem faced a difficult problem of converting its facilities to peacetime production. The shift was made gradually and without great loss, and has now been completed. Only about 2% of the company's entire property and plant investment now consists of emergency ordnance plants. Bethlehem's feat is all the more remarkable when it is recalled that the Midvale Steel and Ordnance Co., taken over by Bethlehem in 1923, was likewise primarily a producer of war materials...
...this feat his reputation had rested until the World War, when he took charge of returning prisoners of war to their native countries. His work was largely in Russia, Germany, and Czecho-Slavakia. Since the war he has been doing relief work in connection with the League of Nations. He has won for himself as great honors for relief work as for his polar expedition. It was for the relief work that he was awarded the Nobel prize...