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Bristling with American Legion pins. William Edward ("Bill") Easterwood Jr., big breezy Texan and vice-commander of the Legion, was in Rome last week. He called on Italy's King Victor Emanuel and Premier Benito Mussolini, afterwards confided to the Press: "Premier Mussolini asked for the pin I wore on my hat and I pinned it on his lapel. I offered the King the one I had on my coat and pinned it on his lapel. He said he was very proud to wear it." Thus Vice-Commander Eas terwood thought he had made Italy's King...
...Texan who went to Manhattan from Waco at 14, President Lewine was a happy man. Not only did last week's opening mark the completion of plans on which he and his friends have worked for years, but, more important, his Commodity Exchange, with its 1,031 members, was being auspiciously launched upon a rising tide of prices which promised to lead on to fortune. Seats on the Commodity Exchange, which for the merger of the old Rubber, Silk, Hides and Metals Exchanges, were valued at $900. have shot...
...which had once made a record flight to Buenos Aires. The whole was painted red-white-&-blue with the markings of an eagle in flight, and named Century of Progress. (Mattern's backers were H. B. Jameson and Hayden R. Mills of Chicago.) A big, blond, curly-headed Texan, onetime trapdrummer, seasoned pilot, Mattern was in the pink of condition. Besides a half dozen oranges he carried two gaily painted vacuum bottles of hot water given him by Artist George Luks. One was labeled "Happy," the other "Landings," "See you in a week," were his parting words...
...intermission was "On the Prairie," by Composer William H. Woodin. Mr. & Mrs. Woodin had a box and invited guests to hear it, but when the number was played, Mr. Woodin was not there. He was at the Mayflower Hotel along with Secretary of State-to-be Hull, and Texan Jesse Jones of the R. F. C. conferring with Citizen Roosevelt. Worry, worry-what to do about the banks...
...Rainey-Byrns ticket in return for the appointment as assistant majority leader of stocky, hard-bitten Thomas Henry Cullen from the Red Hook district of Brooklyn. Jumping the South's traces, Texas joined the Rainey-Byrns-Cullen combination because its success would advance Representative James Paul Buchanan, a Texan, to the Appropriations Committee chairmanship vacated by Mr. Byrns...