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...last folded its moulting blue wings and sank to ashes. Of its remaining 2,000 employes, 600 were ordered fired, about 30 were transferred to the Department of Labor, the rest to the Department of Commerce where they will finish their work by April 1 and quit...
After plumbing the mysterious depths of the Hoare Crisis further, the anti-Deal and pro-League New York Times anxiously headlined: "BALDWIN ANXIOUS TO QUIT AS PREMIER. Official Burdens Rest Heavily on Him, but He Is Not Likely to Act Precipitately. Hoare Aspires to Post His Stock Rising Since Speech of Defense...
...remarkable young man just half his age. The old man was William J. Filbert, bald, popeyed, secretive master of Steel's endless columns of statistics. Presumably he was 70, Steel's compulsory retirement age, since it was inconceivable that Mr. Filbert would quit voluntarily. One of the few ascertainable dates in Mr. Filbert's virtually dateless career is 1881, the year he went to work for Chicago & North Western Ry. By 1901 when the Steel Corp. was founded, Mr. Filbert was already marshalling facts & figures in one of the component companies. A legendary figure listed in neither...
...Henry Hooper of the Foundation scurried up. "Henry, I forgot to tell you: I left two bags of seeds, one walnut and one pine. I wish you would plant them in the nursery." Up went the gangplank. Off went the train. When the special stopped at Chattanooga, the President quit work on his speech, went out to the rear platform. "I don't have to tell you," he declared to the station crowd, "of my interest in this State and in this section of this State, because in the Tennessee Valley the nation as a whole is conducting...
...strangers are automatically considered revenue agents. Born in Smithville, Tenn. in 1910, Ed Bell worked in a brickyard at 10, has since worked in a rock quarry, on a bridge construction crew, in a grocery store, as a janitor, plasterer, chicken farmer, newspaper reporter. Attending college briefly, he quit after he had been suspended three times for his writings in the college paper. Tall, bushy-haired, expressing himself in the twanging speech of the hill country, he now lives in Murfreesboro, where he began his literary career by conducting a newspaper column for which he received no salary...