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...plane probably would have gouged her skis into the ice, somersaulted into a heap. Coolly he pulled his Condor's nose up almost to the stalling angle, squashed the ship's tail into the snow. The skis bounced up into a near horizontal. In that split second Pilot June set the ship down safely...
...caution: he made his piles not by financial forays but by carrying a flag of truce. A year after his death (1918) the National City Bank had ballooned to billion-dollar size. Stillman's only intimate was Lawyer John W. Sterling, crotchety bachelor who carried punctuality to the split second, fussiness to the point of boycotting his club for exactly one week when anything gave him the slightest offense there. Stillman's own peculiarities were unlovable. He sometimes shaved three times a day, rarely spoke at his excessively formal dinner table, kept the chef in a cold sweat...
German editors who have not even dared hint the split between Chancellor Adolf Hitler and the No. 2 Nazi, bull-necked Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, at last had something they could print last week. Herr Hitler had omitted General Göring from the list of high officials to whom he sent New Year's greetings, and Premier Göring had snubbed the Chancellor in kind. Berlin rocked at the news...
Following the general pattern of the League of Nations at Geneva, five committees will be organized to discuss legal and constitutional questions, technical organizations, political subjects, general humanitarian questions, and the German refugee problem. Committee I has chosen for its topic "Reorganization of the League," while Committee II has split into two subcommittees, the first to discuss an economic question and the second to consider "Intellectual Cooperation." "Mandates" is the subject picked by the political Committee and Committee IV has undertaken the consideration of "The Opium Convention." The subject of "German Refugees" has been delegated to a special group...
Aside from the split-up of Roosevelt & Son, the turn of the year brought few important shifts in Wall Street's personnel. Ralph Wolf and Leon H. Kronthal retired from the old house of Speyer & Co. and three new partners were admitted-Henry Herrman and Charles G. Stachelberg, both long associated with the firm, and George Nelson Lindsay, onetime vice president of Bancamerica-Blair Corp. And John Daniel Hertz was taken into the banking house of Lehman Brothers...