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...Titular ruler of the U. S. toy world is William Charles Lehman, big, jovial, redheaded president of Toy Manufacturers of the U.S.A., Inc. Lehman Co. of America (more specifically of Cannelton, Ind.) has been making nursery furniture since 1876. The business is now run by four third generation toymaking Lehman brothers of which the oldest and wisest is William Charles. At the fair last week, the Brothers Lehman's pride & joy, was a 275-lb. high chair, built for display, from which no baby could escape. Even an adult locked in behind the tray cannot overtip...
...Cutten experienced another emotion. The Federal Government, after examining his grain transactions over a long period, cracked down and bade him show cause why he should not be barred from trading in all U. S. contract markets. No less important a New Dealer than Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, as titular head of the Grain Futures Administration, was Speculator Cutten's inquisitor. The Government's chief complaint was that Speculator Cutten had misreported or failed to report his long and short positions of 500,000 bu. or more, as the Grain Futures Act requires. He had, said the Government...
...talk of a Habsburg restoration. A political move in which they were more willing to believe was the possible establishment of a Regency for Austria on the model of Admiral Horthy's Regency in Hungary. First candidate for such a post is obviously Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg, titular head of the Heimwehr, descendant and namesake of the great general who saved Vienna from the Turks in 1683. When there was another little Cabinet shift in Vienna last week, a second candidate for Regent of Austria jumped into the public mind. Dauntless old Prince Alois von Schonburg-Hartenstein...
...Prince von Starhemberg, titular head of the Heimwehr. was last week offered the post of Minister without portfolio in the Dollfuss Cabinet. Two weeks before he had said: "Reports that I am aiming at the crown are entirely untrue. I will not be a competitor of the Habsburgs. Otto is the only possible Emperor." If Otto should be restored it would bring certain definite advantages to Austria. The minor squabblings of Heimwehr, Christian Socialists, and Dollfuss Front members would end once they had a common figure to rally round. There would be a new, possibly a more glamorous figure...
...Canada's Supreme Court. To 32 Canadian women he gave the Order of the British Empire for their good and charitable works. Snapped ex-Premier King, now Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition at Ottawa: "An attempt to create in Canada a social order based on titular distinctions is not only unwise and inconsiderate, but is both rash and unjust...