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...more than 18 months ahead. If there is not recovery in 18 months then radicals will storm at the ivory gates of the Capitol. The Huey Longs, the Upton Sinclairs, the Father Coughlins, the Dr. Townsends- their successors, their deputies, their proselytes, or their social kin-will be the strong men of politics. Only Recovery can ward them off, can save Franklin Roosevelt from having his left flank turned. Therefore a helping hand to Business and Recovery, more leisurely advancement for Reform. Thus, last week, the pundits...
...kin to famed Lilli Lehmann who died six years...
...kin to the late great Marcus Loew, Jewish fur dealer who became a tycoon in the cinema world...
Softspoken, friendly, unostentatious, L. & N.'s new president has long been known to railroad's rank & file as "Plain Jim." No kin of famed Empire Builder James Jerome Hill, he was born of poor Tennessee mountainfolk, learned railroad telegraphy at 13, won a $100 scholarship to George Peabody College for Teachers at 15 and graduated three years later as a licensed schoolteacher. He abandoned an academic career to take a $15-a-month job as relief station agent in a tiny town called Bon Air. One day he applied for a better job, was asked if he knew...
...Indianapolis that Kidnapper Robinson motored Mrs. Stoll. In an apartment two blocks from the executive mansion of the Governor of Indiana, she was bound, nearly suffocated in a closet. Following directions in the ransom letter left in Louisville, Mrs. Stoll's kin sent $50,000 express to Father Robinson in Nashville. Snatcher Robinson's wife started for Indianapolis with the money, detrained at Terre Haute, unconsciously avoided a taxi proffered by a D. O. I. man in disguise, motored to Indianapolis. Off the trail, Chief Purvis and his men did not catch up with Mrs. Robinson until...