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...beard for seven years, trying to thwart a checkmate. Occasionally he would stride over to a railroad map of the U. S. on which a great Loree System was only a dotted line, and stand there cursing softly. Or he would sit slumped behind his desk banging a stack of five-dollar gold pieces from one hand into the other and express himself bitterly to curious interviewers: "Hell, I don't see how those fellows have the face to talk the way they do. But you can say anything if you keep a straight face...
...their early tours the Jubilee Singers earned $150,000 with which Jubilee Hall was built to replace the Union barracks. As the singers went on advertising the University, Fisk equipment grew until the first stack of spelling books and New Testaments, bought by selling for old iron the rusty handcuffs from Nashville's slavepens, became a legend. Now there are 25 well-equipped campus buildings at Fisk (not counting the nearby grocery store where students go to eat fried fish). Academically it has Class A rating...
...transport were really a poker game, Player Philbin would need a substantial stack of blue chips to back his express ace. They have been supplied by "strong financial interests." Three of the backers were learned last week: Chandler Hovey, socialite, yachtsman, senior partner in Kidder, Peabody & Co. (Wall Street investment house); Arthur S. Jackson, of Jackson Bros., Boesel & Co. (Chicago brokers) ; and Frank Phillips, petroleum tycoon whose gas & oil will fill the tanks of Air Express Corp.'s ships. First aide to President Philbin is his vice president in charge of traffic. James G. Woolley, a plump, profane hurricane...
...Downs. The secret schedules between Mother Britain and Daughter Canada,most important of the lot, stack up as follows: Seventy-nine classes of manufactured goods on which Canada has tariffs she will now admit from the United Kingdom duty free. In 136 classes Daughter Canada will give the Mother Country preference in either of two ways: 1) by decreasing her tariffs on 53 classes of goods from the United Kingdom while maintaining these tariffs against non-Empire goods; 2) by increasing Canadian tariffs on 83 classes of goods while exempting British goods in these classes from the increase...
With the campaign pressing him from all sides President Hoover last week found it hard to keep his mind on public business. He went over some Budget figures with Director James Clawson Roop. He discussed labor conditions in the bituminous coal fields with callers. He answered a stack of belated mail. But most of his time was taken up by G. O. Partisans who wanted to tell him how good they thought his Des Moines speech was (see below) and urge him to go into their territory and make another like it. Exclaimed blind Senator Schall of Minnesota: "Mr. President...