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Elisha Walker, bankless banker, and Herbert Bayard Swope, rufous onetime executive editor of the old New York World, were made directors of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. at the request of a group reported to hold 150,000 shares and headed by Bernard Mannes Baruch. Financier Baruch's direct entrance into B. M. T. affairs was thought likely to hasten unification of New York's scrambled subways...
...Rejected (45-to-8) a Presidential request for a $40,000 appropriation to pay expenses of a delegation to the proposed London Economic Conference, voted the money instead to a world "monetary conference" not yet officially proposed...
...propagated their royal race by divine miracle-a newborn babe would be discovered in the temple by the priests, and at the same time the virgin breasts of the queen would miraculously begin to give milk. But no such luck befell Balkis, even though, at the priest's request, a god once visited her disguised in human flesh. The priests, in despair, then packed her off to Solomon. Unfortunately she sends lovely Zud, her lady-in-waiting, ahead to salute Solomon. He becomes infatuated with Zud, and Balkis has to win her way by wile. It is no peaceful...
...Green, Howard Earle Coffin, August Heckscher, Clark Howell, Henry Stevens, Edward F. Hutton, William Vincent Griffin, Jesse Isidor Straus and Elon Huntington Hooker petitioned President Hoover to revive the Council of National Defense. They argued that a dictatorship was the way out of Depression. President Hoover promptly rejected their request. He felt that the C. 0. N. D. was only an advisory war body and that the Cabinet, Federal Reserve Board, Farm Board and Reconstruction Finance Corp. were now "the most effective economic council that could be devised." Declared the President: "It is my impression that...
...Sullivan's burlesque on Mourning Becomes Electra, the most elaborate buffoonery in the show, runs to punning. One character is mortally "a-Freud." another consents to a request with "Well, if you incest." Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill is the one who gets shot at the end of the rigmarole, but is happily saved from death by a telephone book which he has been concealing beneath his clothing the manuscript for his new play...