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Died. William Louis Veeck, 56, president of the Chicago Cubs; of leucocythaemia: in Chicago. Fourteen years ago the Cubs' owner, the late William Wrigley Jr., rubbed raw by withering criticism administered almost daily in Sportswriter Veeck's column, called him in and sarcastically offered him the job of running the club. Veeck accepted. During his tenure the Cubs won two pennants, lost both World Series...
...before. In July the price of cotton sheets was 85? wholesale, 99? retail. By September though the wholesale price was still 85?, the retail price was $1.23. Excuse : cotton processing tax, which amounts to but less than 8? per sheet. In six weeks overalls jumped 38? a pair though raw cotton had declined and the processing tax per pair amounted to only...
...That the code's clause banning sales below cost contained no provision that Alcoa must figure its costs of fabricated wares on the price it charges for raw aluminum. If Alcoa based the price of its fabricated products on the price it charges itself for raw aluminum, the independents claimed that Alcoa could undersell them at all times...
...most satisfying, this is also the most difficult method. But the character artist of the "Raven" has lost none of his salty skill. John Quincy Adams is the "thin-lipped, perspiring New Englander, who had spent a third of his life abroad"; James Monroe "The raw-boned, six-foot President . . . a shy man, an able lieutenant, though a mediocre chief." There is young "Capt. Fort, speaking freely and a trifle importantly"; and plump little Rachel, "a frontier woman, clinging to the fragile images of a bygone day that had witnessed her last touch with happiness." Mr. James sketches these...
...number of aspirants is limited by the assurance that should they fail they face a firing squad. On the tunic of Major Fey hangs the Maria Theresa Order. He still believes in direct action. The Heimwehr is officially unarmed, but its officers carry a supple, square-edged bludgeon of raw oxhide known as an ochsenknüttel. During the great Heimwehr parade of last May, when Chancellor Dollfuss wore his wartime uniform for the first time (TIME, May 29) Major Fey, Minister of the Austrian Government, knocked three Nazis unconscious with his own ochsenknüttel. For months wiseacres have...