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...fact that he is leader of the farm bloc in the Senate. The Senate with its loose organization is a much better field of operation for the farm bloc than is the House. Whatever legislation the junior Senator from Kansas espouses is likely not only to have the firm support of the farmer, but to have a good chance of enactment provided the Presidential veto does not intervene. At any rate as leader of the Senate farm bloc, Mr. Capper has as much power to disturb the even temper of that body's procedure as Mr. Curtis, his colleague...
...December, 1921, the mail order house of Sears, Roebuck & Co., that proud, old firm "founded on a fair profit, a fine organization and the faith of the customer," was in a bad, bad way. The post-War depression and readjustment had nibbled away at inventories and surplus so that earlier that year dividends on common stock had to be suspended. It seemed to President Julius Rosenwald and his associates that, to balance on the year, they would have to write off inventories hugely, pass dividends and even levy on holders of common stock some fraction of their stocks. Now these...
...answer Mr. Valentino walked over to Mrs. Gould "with a firm and dignified step," and spun her out upon the floor in a Brazilian maxixe. As dawn broke, Frisco awarded him first prize in the Charleston contest...
Married. Miss Susan Brandeis, able barrister, daughter of Justice Brandeis of the U. S. Supreme Court, and partner in the legal firm of Benjamin S. Kirsh, to one Jacob H. Gilbert, likewise a Manhattan lawyer; at the meeting house of the Society for Ethical Culture, Manhattan...
...five years, Mr. Mead's services lately have been numerous and varied, for the most part in the financial department. He graduated from Harvard with honors in 1887, and after a period of study in Europe, entered a stock broker's office. He then became a member of the firm of F. S. Mead and Company, where he remained for ten years...