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That disposed of a contingency which no one had considered imminent, but in another breath the Secretary of the Interior and master of PWA gave another wraith of gossip the substance of a possibility. How, asked interviewers, about his running for mayor of Chicago? "That," said Mr. Ickes, "is my conception of a good idea...
...fortnight or more Lindbergh-haters had been putting the heat on T. W. A. Letters and wires poured in; Manhattan's Daily Worker boomed the drive. Gossip columnists noted its progress. Result was that in the December Official Aviation Guide (in which the lines pay $15 a page for blurb and timetable space), nowhere in T. W. A.'s eleven pages could the name of Lindbergh be found. The Transcontinental route Lindbergh charted ten years ago is now "The Sunny Santa Fe Trail," and the credit line reads: "Nature made...
Keeping watch on bank accounting is the specific job of the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency. Until recently, comptroller was bubbling J. F. T. O'Connor, who resigned to run for Governor of California. Mr. O'Connor's successor is Preston Delano, and banking gossip for several weeks has held that there would soon be a tightening of Federal supervision over Banker Giannini's finances. That A. P. himself smelled a mouse became clear last month when he startled the American Bankers Association convention by announcing that he was "fed up with some...
...whether they seek culture or enter tainment, most literary-society meetings go smoothly, end with tea and gossip...
High thinking was promoted by barring all children's books, starting Bertha right off with Shakespeare, Milton, Jane Austen and, of course, Thoreau. Grandma allowed no gossip about people-"not people outside of books." Grandma disapproved of dolls and pets. Bertha once tried to hatch out an egg herself in order to acquire a pet, at last resigned herself to loving a tree...