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...discard. Newshawks at the White House knew it when John Lewis stomped grimly into the President's office next day. And correspondents in the press box at the Democratic Convention last week knew it when John Lewis, hospitably received by the Resolutions Committee, was presumably permitted to hew out the labor plank of the platform on which Franklin Roosevelt will stand for reelection. Significantly the plank went out of its way to take specific note of labor problems which interest John L. Lewis. By last week, newshawks widely concluded, John L. Lewis had entered the charmed circle of Politicians...
Nucleus of the company was formed in 1853 by the two brothers Berkey, Julius and William, one of whom had taken an afternoon off from logging in the Grand River to hew himself a table. Twenty years later the company was incorporated with $500,000 capital, and the great period of Grand Rapids furniture began. The Eastern market was opened to Grand Rapids when a suite (a "suit" not a "sweet," in the furniture business) by Berkey won a gold medal at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. After that, through the American Victorian, Eastlake, Mission and the Golden...
...prognostications for 1936 and far beyond the same set of simple facts also served. Year-end reviews are largely newspaper promotional efforts limited in size only by the amount of advertising available. As publishing phenomena they are not confined to the lay press, but trade journals and business dailies hew closer to the record, indulge in less unadulterated opinion. Preparations for fat year-end business supplements often begin two months in advance, though small news papers may buy a canned review in mat form from United Press for $3. Except for a few charts and tables, however, most...
...ground school courses, primarily for men who already know hew to fly, are to be given by the Flying Club at the East Boston Airport. These two courses will cover the fundamentals of navigation and meteorology...
...Odium's theories hew close to the British tradition. Last week, apparently satisfied that "the upward trend could be seen with greater clarity." the young, sandy-haired financier made U. S. financial history by offering'to underwrite two big issues of new Paramount Publix Corp. securities. Under the film company's plan of reorganization, already approved by security-holders and the courts, Paramount's old stockholders will be offered a smaller amount of new shares in exchange for their present holdings and also the right to buy more. The Atlas offer, which Paramount swiftly accepted...