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Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivifies, Fain would I fathom thy nature specific; Loftily poised in the other capacious Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous...
...fine fettle last week was Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, acrid chairman of the Senate committee investigating railroad finance. Fortnight ago the Senator unearthed amid the yellowing records of the Van Sweringen empire and the dust bins of Guaranty Co. history one gem of purest ray serene. This was a memorandum written in 1930 by John Minor Botts Hoxsey, listing expert of the New York Stock Exchange, warning that "public protest" would follow the multiplication of such corporations as the Van Sweringen holding companies, for which Guaranty Co. underwrote and the Stock Exchange approved an ill-fated $30,000,000 bond...
Countess Edda's husband last month made a pact with Herr Hitler (TIME, Nov. 2) who effusively pressed upon him the supreme Nazi gift: a copy of Mein Kampf "from the hands of Der Führer himself and with his so-gemütlich autograph." Last week Count Ciano was doing Austria and Hungary. By themselves Austria and Hungary have been timid about breaking the post-War treaties intended to hog-tie them but last week, feeling they were under Dictator Mussolini's broad wing, they joyously slipped these bonds. In a joint Italian-Austrian-Hungarian communiqu...
...favorite Roosevelt author, Engineer David Cushman Coyle (TIME, Sept. 14). Recommending them to the newshawks, he picked up Waste, offered some samples. "Money comes," read he, "not only out of doing more business; money comes also out of not suffering losses." That statement, observed the President, was a gem...
...cracking soil, a dusty skyline, a steer's skull lying in the foreground. The picture was taken by the RA's able Cameraman Arthur Rothstein and had been widely used by the U. S. Press as a sample of the drought in the Dakotas. Of this "gem among phony pictures," the Fargo Forum declared: "There never was a year that this scene couldn't be produced in North Dakota, even in years when rain- fall levels were far above normal. What we see here is a typical alkali flat, left when melting snow water and spring rains...