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...them. Hearing that his father is hill, and being temporarily fed up with his play boy existence, he jumps into his special custom model roadster, and sets out for the reservation. When he arrives there finding his father dying, unattended by the government doctor, and discovering the graft-ridden administration makes him burn for revenge, and when his sister is raped by the funeral director during his father's burial service, he sets out for revenge, lassos the culprit in his spending roadster, and drags him along the road behind...
...Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia had gone into office expecting to be to patronage-ridden and empty-treasuried New York City what Franklin D. Roosevelt was to the Depression-ridden U. S., determined to make over the city government as the President was making over the Federal Government. When Mayor LaGuardia demanded a bill from the New-York Legislature giving him drastic powers, Governor Herbert Henry Lehman called him promptly to order. The Mayor went to Albany and an amicable settlement was reached. The Mayor agreed not to ask dictatorial powers for himself but to have the necessary authority for revamping...
...Founder Adolphus of the Anheuser-Busch brewery (Bndweiser), "Gussie" Busch carried the family business safely through Prohibition, continued the family tradition of liberal philanthropy. Snubbed by snobbish socialites, he and his family attained an enviable social standing without their help. For the last several months Brewer Busch had been ridden by heart trouble and gout...
...life he frequently suffered from head colds, sore throat, headaches. Several times he was bed-ridden with fevers and lung involvements. Rheumatism kept him from attending the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia. In October 1787 he went to Boston with a severe head cold...
...throughout the Depression-to close or not to close. His problem was more acute because if he closed one company he would have had, in fairness, to close all. The cue from Washington was clearly not to close, and his experts reminded him that the mortgage companies had ridden out every previous depression on the anchor of the 18-month clause. Close he did not, and final judgment on his wisdom awaits the time when historians finish with the ways of Herbert Hoover in Depression...