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Speaking to the assembled young Democrats the President seemed blissfully unconscious of the Schechter case, and the defeat of the Blue Eagle at the hands of the domestic chicken. Otherwise he must consider that eagle somewhat of a phoenix, hourly expecting it to spring from its ashes. For the plan he proposes for curbing unemployment, certainly involves the N.R.A. principles of labor control. The establishment of higher wages and shorter hours by governmental authority are the very tools so clearly condemned about a year ago. Defining the age range of the employable to make more room for competent middle-aged...
Brig. General Pelham Davis Glassford, superintendent of the District of Columbia police during the 1932 Bonus March (TIME, Aug. 8, 1932), began a 90-day reorganizing job as police chief of Phoenix, Ariz., where he has run a small wheat & alfalfa ranch since his retirement from Washington three months after the Bonus Marchers withdrew...
Last week the business of avenging the sad affair of Tom Molineaux fell to his great-great-grandnephew, John Henry Lewis, a coffee-colored 21-year-old from Phoenix, Ariz., who is currently light-heavyweight champion of the world. Lewis' opponent in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden was the first Englishman in the past decade deemed worthy of a chance to win such an important title, a tubby-looking, determined young Lancashireman named Jock McAvoy, billed as middleweight and light-heavyweight champion of the British Empire...
...only fighter in his descendants' lineage. John Henry Lewis inherited his profession more directly from a grandfather, who was a heavyweight, his father, who was a featherweight. Two brothers are also prizefighters. Practicing his profession, Lewis' father migrated from Ohio to Los Angeles, trekked back to Phoenix, Ariz., where he opened a gymnasium and taught boxing. John Henry Lewis was ready to enter his father's business at 16. He did so without the preface, customary for such young fisticuffers, of fighting as an amateur. Instead, he took all the professional fights he could find...
Last week's other squabble was between the Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co. management of Standard Investing Corp. and Phoenix Securities Corp., dominated by Wallace Groves, a secretive onetime small-loan banker from Baltimore. Controlling some 25% of Standard Investing's stock, the Groves faction had a good talking point in Standard's investment record, which could hardly be called impressive. On the other hand, Wallace Groves catapulted Phoenix Securities' assets from $2,000,000 to $9,000,000 in the past few years...