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...gigantic business. The professional executive is usually an importation from a company's financial backers, and the Metropolitan is, of course, nobody's toy train. Nor does Mr. Ecker belong to the small group of Dynastic Executives who inherit their positions. He might well be termed a "log cabin to White House" executive...
President Van Buren spent $27,000 on new decorations. Congress fumed about "Caesar's palace" and "Asiatic Mansion." In consequence Harrison won the "Log Cabin" campaign...
...told with strange confusion. O'Neill again resorts to the "aside," which he revived for Strange Interlude, and, at times, to the stark staccato of the new school. These make for cloudiness but the play frequently transcends its uncertainty with moments of eerie suspense. And the dia log is often shot through with a fine fire of poetry. It is played against elemental backgrounds designed by Lee Simonson which do much to soften its rough edges...
More specific was Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa, who was born in a log cabin remote from the money-changers. Why, argued Senator Brookhart, quibble about such a detail as prohibiting merely Federal Reserve Banks from making speculative loans to Federal Reserve Bank members? Let us prohibit any loan by any bank to any borrower who might put the loan to speculative purposes. Radical also was the remedy offered by Utah's Senator William H. King, who has ascertained that 85% of speculation is made on margins, and who believes therefore that marginal trading should be abolished. Senator...
Fortunately there are other staircases in the Latjeran. Cardinal Gasparri, Signor Mussolini and their suites entered not all kneeling, but militantly erect. They met and faced each other across a massive table, 16 feet long and 4 feet wide, the top hewn from a single log of deep red narra wood from the Philippines. Present at the signing were no guests, no newspapermen, no servants, and only two photographers who scuttled out as soon as they had snapped the awesome scene. The door was then locked and Papal Attorney Pacelli read solemnly the text of the Italo-Papal agreement which...