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Confirmed by the Senate were the appointments of Charles Gates Dawes to be president of R. F. C. and Jesse Holman Jones and Harvey Crowley Couch to be directors (TIME, Feb. 1). A new Senate rule stipulating that no Presidential appointee may be sworn in until two executive sessions of the Senate have taken place after his confirmation, was waived. President Dawes and his board rolled up their sleeves and started to work. Applications to share the $2,000,000,000 credit fund, with which the Administration hopes to check the downward spiral of deflation, poured into the Treasury offices...
...director of Chase National Bank of New York and of Electric Power & Light Co. of New York. Friendly Arkansans hail him as their State's Cecil Rhodes. Speaker John Nance Garner of Texas also got his man on the R. F. C. directorate when President Hoover appointed Jesse Holman Jones, Houston banker, builder (Rice Hotel) & publisher (Chronicle}. As the finance director of the Democratic National Committee, Mr. Jones lured the 1928 party convention to his city with a blank check. Good friend is he of Governor Ross Sterling, whose private finances he now manages. New York...
Last October Governor Sterling placed his affairs in the hands of a friendly trusteeship headed by his good friend Banker Jesse Holman Jones. The trustees, who loaned Governor Sterling $800,000, found one of his properties could be sold immediately-the Post-Dispatch, only morning paper in the city, which the Governor established in 1924 by merging his newly acquired Dispatch with the old, moribund Post...
...Race week at Cleveland, the 100-mi. Thompson Trophy Race. Lowell Bayles, onetime coal miner, of Springfield, Mass., flying a Gee-Bee speedster, covered the 100 miles in 25 min. 23:88 sec. His average speed, 236 m.p.h., was 35 m.p.h. better than the late Charles W. ("Speed") Holman's when he won the race a year...
Charles W. ("Speed") Holman, famed speed and stunt pilot, winner of many an air derby, flew into Omaha for the air races last week. He voluntered to "put on a few stunts" to enliven the afternoon's program. After taking much of the crowd's breath with routine acrobatics, he put his fast Laird biplane into a 2,000-ft. power dive, rolling it over on its back. As plane & pilot flashed low over the grandstands, spectators saw Holman hanging head down by a precarious knee-hold, clutching desperately for the controls. He did not reach them...