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...that husky lover of detective stories, rich Public Utilitarian Harvey Crowley Couch of Pine Bluff, Ark. And from the most spacious State of all is the man who dominates RFC's policies, has dominated them since the agency's re birth-Chairman Jesse Holman Jones, a Texan now become a titan. When Jesse Jones is out of Washington, RFC is out of Washington; no decisions are made, no major business transacted. Just as Hugh Johnson is NRA, Jesse Jones is RFC. Farm Boy to Financier, Like most of the Southwest's first generation of indigenous tycoons, Jesse...
...money which the Government will have to borrow in the next few months nearly $4,000,000,000 will be necessary to provide the cash which the RFC dispenses. Although everyone knew that vast RFC advances were being made, few people realized on what a grand scale big Texan Jesse Jones was playing Santa Claus to U. S. business. His biggest benefaction for fiscal 1934: new capital for banks, $1,350,000,000; carrying farm commodities, $498,000,000; state relief, $462,000,000. These "staggering" totals will not represent total losses. Although they represent for the most part loans...
...able Texan, Chairman Buchanan of the Appropriations Committee, had already laid the ground work for handling the first Roosevelt budget which may set a peacetime record. Other Committee chairmen - Steagall of Banking & Currency, Jones of Agriculture, Sumners of Judiciary, Sam Rayburn of Interstate & Foreign Commerce - were last week all as busy as beavers putting together legislative ideas out of which President Roosevelt will take his pick on money, farm relief, liquor, transportation...
More like their father than the others is Son Eugene Alexander Howe who ran the Atchison Globe for twelve years after Ed Howe left, then moved to Amarillo, Tex. to start a chain of papers of his own. His column in the Amarillo News-Globe, The Tactless Texan, has given Gene Howe more than his neighborly nickname "Old Tack.'' He got himself nationally quoted in 1928, when he called Lindbergh "swell-headed . . . simple-minded . . . lucky"; in 1929, when he said that Mary Garden was "so old she actually tottered." When Mary Garden visited Amarillo for the second time...
...buggy a bugaboo. A few years ago a 22-year-old graduate of the University of Texas named Byron Cecil Foy began selling Fords in Dallas. Norval A. Hawkins, Ford's salesmanager, was staging a nation-wide sales contest and to everyone's surprise the young Texan won it. Soon he was working directly for Ford. Next he became head of Reo's sales in California. Then he moved to Manhattan as partner in a firm of Metropolitan Chrysler distributors. From there he moved into Chrysler Motors & the Chrysler family, by marrying Walter Chrysler's eldest...