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...autocratic powers in the hands of a small Washington group, the Federal Reserve Board. If there was to be currency inflation, the peppery little Virginian wanted it diffused throughout the land. If "governments" were to be turned into more currency, he wanted to short-circuit the Federal Reserve and hook the 7,600 national banks up directly with the Treasury and its Bureau of Engraving & Printing...
...behind news cameras are trained to be as impassive, as mechanically efficient in time of crisis as surgeons or telephone girls. By hook or crook they must get that picture. Last week to the venerable dean of Paris news photographers, Louis Piston, came the opportunity to crown his adventurous career by photographing the assassination of the President of the Republic...
...though his pugilistic competence had suddenly become commensurate with his earning power. He ran out of his corner, danced about for two minutes waving his large hands in an awkward way, then whacked Walker's snubnosed face, first with a right, then with a hard left hook. Walker, dropped by the punches, got up before Referee Ed Purdy could start a count. He was groggy for the rest of the first round, wary for the next two, but he started a rally in the fourth. Fighting his first important opponent since he held Jack Sharkey to a draw last...
...clock this morning, six fire engines, led by the chief's car and a giant hook-and-ladder raced to the scene of a fire which was rapidly consuming the seat of a Model A Ford car parked on the corner of Linden and Bow streets. With considerable difficulty, the entire front seat of the automobile was removed, the conflagration was extinguished, and the fire apparatus disappeared into the night...
...Akron's speed to world's fastest. But more notable is the installation of apparatus in the ship's belly to permit the nesting of five tiny fighting planes in a marsupial hangar, located amidships within the outer envelope. Through a T-shaped trapdoor the planes, hooked to a trapeze, can be discharged or hoisted in. For the past year the Navy has been training special crack pilots to negotiate the ticklish landing, which consists of threading a large hook atop the plane to the trapeze bar on the mother ship...