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Next day while the steel code was being set down in black & white, General Johnson tackled the oil men. All his hard-boiled energy could not get them to agree with one another. Chief split was on price fixing. One group including Harry F. Sinclair, Kenneth R. Kingsbury of Standard Oil of California, Wirt Franklin, president of the Independent Petroleum Association, wanted complete price fixing from well to consumer. The other group including the representatives of Standard Oils of New Jersey and Indiana, Texas Co., Royal Dutch Shell, Gulf, Sun, Atlantic, favored only that oil should not be sold below...
...Guardia, a radical Republican, failed to be re-elected to Congress. As a deft counterthrust Tammany promptly began to talk of running Ferdinand Pecora as the Tiger's candidate for district attorney. Smart counsel to the Senate Banking & Currency Committee and a Sicilian immigrant, Democrat Pecora would split the Italian vote which Italian-extracted Fiorello La Guardia would naturally draw...
...room on the second floor. With him were his mistress, Irma Zwiestlbauer, and a small child. Clerk Knop was determined to die and he did not care in what company. He set off a bomb of ecrasite, an Austrian shell explosive. Besides gratifying Knop's desire it split the hotel from basement to roof, blew out the front of four stories sent 180-ft. streamers of flame into the air, injured 80 and gave Knop, mistress & child the company of four strangers in Death. That same night in Zubrohlava peasants were about to leave church when a thunderstorm came...
...window. William J. Burns Detective Agency believe that he might have wheedled from a runner or other company employe the exact time that the bonds would be delivered, arranged to have a crony telephone the teller when he crooked a finger. The telephone would distract the teller for a split-second, and a split-second is all a smart thief needs. Once the thief had the bonds they probably passed, as most hot bonds do, through the hands of a "front man" (intermediary) to a fence and then to San Antonio's Commercial National. The thief at most received...
Highlight of the exhibition was a series taken in Manhattan burlesque theatres. Lohse had surreptitiously snapped queens of the famed "strip" routine in the split-second of removing their last skirt and flouncing into the wings. He had caught the slovenly posturing of the chorus on the runway. Other series showed the chorus of Take a Chance (TIME, Dec. 12) swirling their skirts, Jazz Singer Ethel Merman in consecutive poses of singing "Rise and Shine," colored Ethel Waters singing ''Stormy Weather," Actress Lynn Fontanne Lunt making up her face, and the show girls of Manhattan...