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Last week, exhibiting that peculiar U. S. urge to sweat in convention assembled, most of the New Deal's onetime economists and a number of other experts gathered in Ithaca. N. Y. for a Cornell Monetary Conference. Much in evidence on his home ground was Professor George F. ("Rubber Dollar") Warren, the only moneyman who sold a major theory to President Roosevelt but who is no longer a frequent White House caller.* Also on hand was Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, the Treasury's hard money adviser, who quit his post in 1933 as a protest against...
...displaying trophies of a hunt. Always contrasting feverish urban affectations with the contented days and rich histories of small Southern and Western towns, he finds humor, common sense and human decency characteristic of the provincials. His portraits of them would carry more conviction if occasionally human sweat and hot temper broke the serenity of his air-conditioned South...
...weight (18 lb.), reach (3 in.) and a fabulous right-hand punch which had once killed a man. In all earnestness he had told reporters: "I'm scared stiff I'll kill Braddock. I dreamed last night I hurt the boy. I woke up in a cold sweat." Most sportswriters had branded the contest a gross mismatch, had almost unanimously picked Baer to win in the first few rounds. In the first three rounds the fun-loving Californian justified his reputation for high jinks. Dancing about in his black trunks adorned with a six-pointed Star of David...
...that date the Banking Act of 1933 went into effect. One of its provisions prohibited bankers from borrowing from their own banks. Another required them to repay all such intramural loans by June 16, 1935. As that date approached last week many a borrowing banker was in a cold sweat. Loans outstanding totaled nearly $90,000,000. Penalty for failure to pay was fixed by the Banking Act at one year in jail, $5,000 fine. Bankers dispatched telegrams to Congress, wrote letters, even went to Washington. Last week June 16 came & went but no banker was jailed for nonpayment...
...sterile, tuneless start last week but the direction at least was blameless. While Schwab's pretty wife amazed St. Louis by playing golf in scanty shorts and a sunback bandanna, her husband rehearsed tirelessly for 14 hours a day. Producer Schwab's costume: baggy slacks, sweat shirt, worn felt hat. His results: a smooth performance, with no muffed lines, no backstage clatter, no long stage waits...