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Into the President's office last week strode Mississippi's tall, bald Pat Harrison, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, just back from a scouting tour of the South and West. For years Senator Harrison has been a conservative "hard money" Democrat. Yet now he boldly told the President that only by currency inflation could his recovery program be made a success. President Roosevelt listened, smiled, promised nothing. Declared Senator Harrison as he emerged from the White House...
...anti-de Cespedes revolution in Luba was barely a day old last week when Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson strode out of the White House and thrust himself into the thick of it. Not since this 71-year-old Virginian took office in the Cabinet had the Washington air been so electric with martial preparations. Fresh from the Presidential presence, he felt the thrill of national excitement as newshawks clustered about him plied him with questions...
Last week as Mr. Roberts, aged 54, strode out of No. 70 Pine Street, Manhattan, a middle-aged woman pointed at him. Her two male companions accosted him, showed badges, marched him off to Old Slip police station, a tiny building, modeled after a Florentine palazzo, that stands among dingy tea and spice warehouses down on the East River...
...Joseph Kelly started to leave his spacious fifth-floor office at City for home when a newshawk from William Randolph Hearst's Herald & Examiner stepped up to him. "You want to see me?" asked Mayor Kelly. "Yes," replied the Hearstling. "Questions?" "Yes" Mayor Kelly turned on his heel, strode back into his office, shot over his shoulder: "There's no use your waiting around." The reporter departed. Next morning the Herex blazoned this headline across its front page...
...courtroom strode Lawyer Keenan to telephone the verdict to his chief in Washington. Attorney General Cummings, elated, cried: "The penalty is an indication as to how the people feel. ... If convictions may be obtained and heavy penalties inflicted a sufficient number of times, kidnapping can be stopped...