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Commodities. Wheat touched 41⅞? in Chicago last week, making the 42? wheat tariff more than 100% protective. Cotton broke below 6? in Manhattan for the first time since late summer. Corn broke to 23⅝? lowest since 1897. Race for Richfield. Up a notch last week went the big bidding for possession of Richfield Oil Co. of California, an insolvent company deeply entrenched in the rich Pacific Coast gasoline market. The bidding has been between Harry Ford Sinclair's Consolidated Oil Corp. and Standard Oil Co. of California, with Henry Latham Doherty's Cities Service...
Legislative hobby: a top-notch tariff on sugar to benefit Louisiana's cane industry. Even Utah's Republican Smoot is no higher protectionist than he. He ardently advocates Philippine independence to put that possession's sugar crop outside the tariff wall. He voted for coal, oil and copper tariffs in the 1932 Revenue Act. Because of his passion for Republican tariffs most Democratic leaders eye him with political distrust. To the press gallery he is a Democrat in name only and his vote can generally be anticipated. His proudest political feat was inducing Republicans to agree...
...Assistant Secretary threw himself into his work at Washington. He chummed around with the flying officers, piloted his own plane hither & yon, brought the Army air service up to top-notch efficiency under the five-year plane-building program. When Trubee Davison's college friend and fellow flyer, David Sinton Ingalls, arrived in Washington as President Hoover's Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, there was the spectacle of two able, active young friends competing for Congressional appropriations...
...Warder lock, which Master Courtney scorns, consists essentially of a solid bolt with a notch or peg on its stem. The key engages the notch or peg and thus slides the bolt to or fro. Almost anything which can pass through the keyhole can throw this simple lock. To impede such easy passage a trifle, locksmiths sometimes notch the keyhole. Ordinarily only keys with grooved bits which fit the notches can get through such keyholes...
...three most healthful outdoor sports, most conducive to good living and longevity (he is 70) are in his opinion golf, fishing, shooting. He golfs at Old Elm, top-notch Lake Forest, Ill. club for men only. He fishes at Coleman Lake Club (Wisconsin), shoots ducks at the Sanganois Club (Illinois River). He is an ardent Prohibitionist for medical and scientific reasons. He takes himself very seriously...