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...Although when he was a lawyer in Little Rock, many of his best clients were utility companies, although Harvey Couch, potent Arkansas utilitarian, is a better personal friend of his than Franklin Roosevelt, Leader Robinson loyally voted for the TVAmendments to enlarge and improve the President's power yardstick, even more loyally paired his vote to help the Senate approve (45-10-44) the "death sentence" on utility holding companies...
...last week, having swung through Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky, the Merchandise Express was chuffing into the South. When its 3,000-mile itinerary is completed it will have visited 19 important centres including Memphis, Little Rock, New Orleans and Atlanta. Precise dates of arrival were kept secret so that no sly competitor could stage a counterattraction...
...Carpet was laid before his cell door to deaden the sound of hurrying feet. M. Deibler's assistants put up their guillotine with tools swathed in thick felt. The effect of all this was spoiled by a group of leather-lunged, smutty-nosed moppets who scrambled up a rock outside Bandit Spada's cell and shrieked "Spada dies at dawn! Spada dies at dawn...
After the judges had heard all the contestants they awarded a silver cup and the U. S. train-calling championship to Rock Island's Barrowcliffe for his rendering of the following call...
...Clipper reached Midway in 9 hr. 13 min., stayed there two days before returning to Honolulu. On Sand Island, largest of the three coral atolls of the Midway Group, a small village hummed where once had been little but sandy scrub, jungle, coral rock. Trees, imported from Hawaii by the advance construction crew on the steamer North Haven, gave the place a look of lush tropical elegance...