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...Senate floor Mr. Reed is an impressive figure-steel-grey eyes, well-barbered white hair, one of the few Senators who has reached 65 without being either fat or lean, a voice that can ripple gently or ring magnificently or snarl menacingly. Herewith, one excerpt from Mr. Reed's prose and one from his oratory...
...Percenters. The Ford company paid 100% and more dividends for years. Mr. Prentiss cited two other 100 percenters- Timken Brothers who in 1901 built a $100,000 steel mill at St. Louis; Sterling Products Co. of Wheeling, W. Va., makers of Castoria and Dr. Caldwell's Syrup of Pepsin and other proprietary medicines that give yearly profits of $2,500,000. Ford Credit. "I'd say that the Ford Motor Car Co. as a credit proposition equals the United States Steel Corp., the Standard Oil Co., General Electric arid General Motors."-Mr. Prentiss...
...down to dinner with so many bigwigs: British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard; Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon; Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover; Associate Justice Harlan F. Stone; Major General Charles P. Summerall (Chief of Staff) ; Governor Fisher of Pennsylvania; Elbert H. Gary of U. S. Steel; Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel; John D. Rockefeller Jr.; Henry Ford; Patrick E. Crowley of the New York Central; George Eastman, kodaks; Harvey S. Firestone, tires; Will H. Hays, cinemastar; John W. O'Leary, banker and president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Kent Cooper, general manager...
...destruction of "Shady Rest", an old roadhouse fortified as Birger headquarters. In November, some of the Shelton gang, progressive, modern-minded, bought an airplane, dropped bombs, scarred the landscape, missed "Shady Rest." Undiscouraged, they waited for a dark January night, crept close up under "Shady Rest's" steel-barred windows, stacked dynamite against its walls. A roar, a glare, and "Shady Rest" was a flaming ruin, tenanted by four dead bodies-three men, one woman. But Gunman Birger, fingers-crossed, rabbit-footed, was away when the dynamiters called...
...Collinsville robbery. Allied with the law for the duration of the Shelton trial, Charles Birger, sleek, suave, smartly-tailored, stepped into the witness' box, said, "Howdy, Sheltons!" spent 20 minutes swearing away 25 years of three men's lives. Beneath his well-cut coat he wore a steel-vest, bulletproof...