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...President Roosevelt, pelted with demands for action, declared that adequate enforcement of the Oil Code was necessary to prevent surpluses accumulating. Having received his orders from Attorney General Cummings. L. R. Martineau Jr., the new special oil prosecutor, darted by plane to the East Texas Field to lead a platoon of Federal agents into the murky forest of 10,000 derricks...
...Chairman Jesse Jones finally admitted that banks were doing their part in lending to business. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau sent a platoon of professors into the Chicago Federal Reserve district to find out who was holding up credit expansion. But not until last week did it occur to anyone in Washington to look for the Administration's pet banking villain right inside the Treasury. At a Washington conference of national bank examiners President Francis Marion Law of the American Bankers Association politely suggested that perhaps the periodic examinations were so strict that bankers feared to do anything except...
Civilians ran for cover as officers roared "Get off the streets!" An old woman in a black bonnet jaywalked directly in front. From mourning Her Majesty had to turn to machine-guns of a Dutch platoon. She went down with two bullets in her back. "Merciful Jesus!" cried a householder. "She was deaf...
...popped at the Guardsmen with BB rifles. The battered Guardsmen retaliated with barrages of tear gas, with bayonet charges. The strikers, by now a passion-ridden mob completely out of control, retreated only to come back for more. Once Guardsmen fired over their heads. Then, without orders, a Guard platoon leveled its rifles and fired. Two men dropped dead, a onetime CCC camper and an unemployed battery-shop worker. Otherwise the Guardsmen kept their heads, drove back others without more damage than a dozen bayonet and shot wounds and accidental injuries from bursting gas bombs and arrested the leaders...
...Solemnly Mr. Rand read the Committee an extraordinary memorandum which he had received from William Albert Wirt of Gary. Ind. Dr. Wirt, now 60, is superintendent of Gary's school system and one of the most famed schoolmen in the U. S. He is the inventor of the "platoon school," an educational plan by which classes are divided up. given alternate hours of class work. vocational training and play. Dr. Wirt has long been a supporter of the Committee for the Nation. Excerpts from his statement...