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...your Jan. 11 issue, on p. 27, in a footnote, you refer to Clarence Dillon as the builder of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. This is not correct. A few years ago the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. purchased the assets of the Steel & Tube Co. of America, in which a syndicate managed by Dillon, Read & Co. owned a controlling common stock interest. That is all. The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. was founded in 1901 and owes its present preeminence to its President, James A. Campbell and his associates...
...Governors, President Coolidge addressed a letter urging them to be represented at the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety called by Secretary Hoover for March 23. Mr. Coolidge reminded the Governors: "I scarcely need to refer to the importance of the subjects at issue. Nearly 24,000 of our citizens were killed and probably more than 500,000 were hurt by street and highway accidents during the last year...
...doubt that the counterfeiting was undertaken with far wider aims in view than the mere enrichment of the counterfeiters. Scarcely anyone questioned last week that its purpose was to finance a putsch designed to set a king upon the vacant throne of Hungary. Count Bethlen himself referred to the counterfeiters in Parliament as "misguided patriots." Regent Horthy refused to refer to them at all-a most significant gesture on the part of a "ruler" who should nominally have been the first to condemn such acts. The identity of the individual in whose favor the putsch was to have been launched...
Next day Il Benito ascended the tribune again: "The Aventine Opposition has dared to refer to Fascismo as a myth. They have dared to call me Mitra, after the Persian god of light, who is usually represented as seated upon a bull, into which he plunges a sacrificial knife...
Dubuque, Ia., is a metropolis which has long been held up to derision by popular sophists. Because the erratic spelling and dubious pronunciation of the name make it seem to suggest provinciality, the smart Alecs of city journalism refer to ituque came, at a single bound, to long-merited renown...