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...leading negotiators, Mr. Mellon and Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Mellon was keen, experienced, hard, ruthless; Mr. Baldwin, casual, soft, easygoing, and at that time quite raw. Mr. Baldwin [today leader of the largest British party, Conservative] admits that since then he has learnt a great deal. At that time he merited his constant boast that he was only a 'simple countryman.' A business transaction at that date between Mr. Mellon and Mr. Baldwin was in the nature of a negotiation between a weasel and its quarry...
...lighting systems for farms). A total floor space of one million square feet will be used, one million dollars spent. Theme of the exhibition is "Work for Many Hands," to be symbolized by mammoth hands flanking the entrances, to be explained by exhibits showing how General Motors draws its raw materials from every State. Said G. M. President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. of his exhibits last week: "This program was conceived . . . as an aggressive attack upon existing psychology-the prevailing attitude of mind of waiting for something to happen before anything is done...
...About 40 raw materials go into a pencil...
...alcoholism of her brother are enough to make her drink shy. She has an even better reason. In Manhattan, where she finds her brother drunk in a hotel, she meets a youth (Robert Young), whose father, like her own, is inebriate. Because of Prohibition, the father (Walter Huston) drinks raw alcohol in large quantities. It drives him so wild that he beats his wife to death. Dorothy Jordan and Robert Young are drawn together by their mutual hate of alcohol. When they marry, Young joins the Federal Prohibition force. He soon learns the futility of his endeavor from a seasoned...
...52nd International Six Day Bicycle Race were from 5 to 15 Ib. heavier than when they started. They had not slept much-five hours per day, mostly between 5 a. m. and noon-but they had made up for it by eating huge quantities of beef, chicken and raw celery. The basement of Madison Square Garden is never more malodorous, even when populated by show dogs or poultry, than when its catacombs are used as massage rooms and restaurants for cyclists. The odors permeated from the basement to the arena where the riders resided in beaver board shanties beside...