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...story of the election, as told by a close friend of Professor Chase some days after the event is more dramatic than the fiction. The Committee of the Trustees designated to recommend candidates for the Presidency had made its report to the Board of Trustees. Several nominations had been made, supported by various people, and speeches favoring this man or that were in progress when one of the oldest members of the Board took the floor. "Mr. Chairman." he said, "I am a Southerner, a Confederate Veteran, and a Democrat. I have voted for the last time...
...Manhattan Nicholas Murray Butler named a committee of 17, mostly college professors, to investigate the economic crisis, recommend solutions. Included were Walter Lippmann, George Soulé, Edmund...
Aside from being a harmless, rapid, amusing little program picture, No Man of Her Own will recommend itself to a large portion of the cinema public because Babe Stewart, the gambler, is Clark Gable, borrowed from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to play opposite Carole Lombard. Typical shot: Gable-whose animal appeal is abated somewhat by a constant sucking at his teeth-persuading Miss Lombard to climb a ladder in her library so that he can admire her from below...
...tell your prospect what you actually think, yourself, he will give. Tell him very in directly and without too much emphasis what you hope he will give. It has always been very helpful to me, on both sides of the picture, to use that technique and I recommend...
...meet this situation I recommend: 1) that the Federal tax on gasoline (1 per gal.) be continued until June 30. 1934, producing about $137,000,000 additional revenue; 2) that the manufacturers' excise taxes now imposed on certain 'articles be extended and in part replaced by a general uniform tax (excluding food). The annual yield of such a general tax at 2 1/4% would be approximately $355,000,000. The additional $492,000,000 of revenue produced in this way will avoid a further in crease in the public debt [i. e.-balance the budget...