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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...safe enough, these long-weathered snow-fields have a glassy surface, and it is easier to fall than to walk upon them. The photograph of my two companions at the lower edge of such a snow-field illustrates an experience which can be enjoyed on hundreds of slopes in late August after the melting days of summer are past...
...Harry Micajah Daugherty was then Attorney General. His friend Jesse Smith was openly trafficking in liquor permits and withdrawals. The late great Wayne Bidwell Wheeler warned the Drys that what little enforcement they had secured from the Treasury would disappear entirely if Attorney General Daugherty got his untrustworthy hands on Prohibition. When Harlan Fiske Stone became Attorney General, the Drys viewed him too, for all his legal merits, with suspicion. He was reckoned a New York liberal, and New York liberals were not known to favor Prohibition. Next in office as Attorney General was John Garibaldi Sargent. Over the radio...
Curtius v. Schacht. Chief of the German Delegation at The Hague last week was Foreign Minister Dr. Julius Curtius, successor to the late, great Stresemann, and a comparative tyro at diplomacy. He had asked Dr. Schacht to come on from Berlin as a financial expert, found him suddenly as troublesome as a Golem or a Frankenstein...
...sharing Mr. Untermyer's confidence however was Stockholder Mrs. Susie Dryden Kuser who owns 11,150 shares of Class B voting stock, and controls 8,000 in the estate of her husband, . New Jersey's late famed Anthony R. Kuser, bird-lover and Beebe-backer. Petitioning both for a receiver and an injunction restraining Fox officers from paying either Mr. Fox or his family funds of any kind, she made bitter accusations. Chief of these: Cineman Fox bought $440,000 shares of Loew's at $225 when the market was $70; bought a $19,000,000 string...
...Manhattan the passing of control in U. S. Distributing to western interests was a notable event. Although chairman of U. S. Distributing Corp. is George Fulmer Getz, Chicago tycoon and elephant owner, it has been always closely associated with New York business. Organizer of U. S. Trucking was the late Banker James J. Riordan. Chairman of the company in 1920-23 was Banker Riordan's great & good friend Alfred Emanuel Smith...