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...Fifteen years and four days later, on Dec. 21, 1932 the House of Representatives started to withdraw from national Prohibition when by a vote of 23040-165 it passed a bill of its own to legalize 3.2% beer and tax it $5 per bbl.* Not once in the long interim had Wets mustered a winning House majority...
...ornate French Finance Ministry, after the Herriot Cabinet's fall, an agitated functionary rushed into the office of Finance Minister ad interim Louis Germain-Martin who was hungry and just about to go out to lunch...
...Herr Thyssen's enormous detective-watched residence Leader Hitler and Oberst Goring ate dinner after their flights to Berlin. They conferred the same night with Germany's modern Machiavelli, soft-spoken General-leutnant Kurt von Schleicher, Minister of Defense in the von Papen Cabinet which continued to function ad interim. Germans soon noticed the surprising fact that several newsorgans of Biggest Business, such as Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitiing and Rheinisch-Westfalische, had abruptly switched from hostility to support of Adolf Hitler. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitiing urged President von Hindenburg "in the interest of that tranquillity required for business revival," to overcome...
...college is the quotient of its tradition divided into its student body and Princeton's tradition was taking a turn. Dr. John Grier Hibben, the gentle scholar who succeeded strenuously scholarly Woodrow Wilson in 1912, had retired. Into his place, part-time and ad interim, was coming a figure as interesting in the traditional academic scene as is onetime Morgan Partner Thomas Sovereign Gates who took charge of Pennsylvania's big, down-at-heel University two years ago. From its board of trustees Princeton had drafted the lumbering, plainspoken, understanding head of the country's second biggest life insurance company?...
...attractive, blue-eyed miss named Katherine Dougherty got a $15-a-week job as assistant bookkeeper for a skimpy little pamphlet called Photoplay. Last week Miss Dougherty went from the Chicago to the Manhattan office of Photoplay to succeed the late James R. Quirk as president & publisher. In the interim she had folded circulars, addressed envelopes, read manuscripts, worked 40 Sundays a year for the first five years. She is still attractive and young looking. Photoplay is no longer a pamphlet but the most dignified, most richly mounted of cinema "fan" magazines (circulation 559,000). The selection of Miss Dougherty...