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...Newshawks Raymond Clapper, J. Fred Essary, Ulric Bell, Ernest Lindley, Secretary Morgenthau, James Roosevelt and their wives, not to mention Gracie Hall Roosevelt and his sister, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. The President from his armchair called the changes: "Do-see-do! Down the middle and back again! . . . Swing your partner around to the right." Fledgling newshawks clapped in time to Turkey in the Straw, Dixie and Yankee Doodle. Soon a half-dozen reels, more energetic than polished, were in progress in different parts of the East Room. That evening the President stuck to his armchair instead of retiring early...
...German-born Boston milk-dealer, Archibald Robertson Graustein whisked through Harvard Law School by the age of 21; at 25 was partner in the Boston law firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins, at 39 was president of International Paper Co., world's largest paper maker. Last year Mr. Graustein and International Paper parted company (TIME, Feb. 17, 1936), and Mr. Graustein began 'practicing corporate law in Manhattan. Last week, at 51, he was appointed special counsel in charge of corporate reorganization for the U. S. Maritime Commission, now busy in Washington on the vast job of subsidizing...
...bookkeeper in a Cleveland commission house at 16 after high school and a short turn in a commercial college. Four years later with $1,000 he had saved and another $1,000 given him by his father, he struck out for himself, forming his own commission house with a partner named Maurice B. Clark. That summer the first oil well was drilled in Titusville, Pa., but young Rockefeller was still engrossed in produce. Thanks largely to his prodigious capacity for work, his infinite capacity for detail, the firm did a $450,000 business the first year. Like most...
...associates could be sued only as agents of the Government and, as everyone knew, the Government could not be sued without its consent. "We can't show you a case where an Attorney General has ever been restrained," cried Judge Gibson's son-in-law's partner, "but never did an Attorney General attempt such an action as this...
Another explanation of the drooping stockmarket arrived from Britain last week in a fortnightly letter published by Silverston & Co., London brokers. Written by W. B. Burton-Baldry. a genial Silverston partner who sprinkles his work with classical quotations and likes to spend his vacations in the U. S., the letter suggested that in view of the fact that the London Stock Exchange had just enjoyed the worst three-week break since the War, Britain could do worse than get itself an SEC. Wrote sarcastic Broker Burton-Baldry...