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...questionnaire about his business experience. Retained, however, was the old Harding Rule of Three, whereby the party in power could always put its partisans into jobs. The two major changes in the 1933 edict effected by last week's order were to make the civil service examinations actual, transform the Rule of Three into a Rule...
...estranged from her smart sister Helen because of a court battle over their mother's estate, is famed in Denver for her gaudy back yard in which the trees are painted white. Simple and austere, however, are the plans by which able Architect Jules Jacques Benous Benedict will transform the exterior of existing red brick Franciscan buildings into Lombard Romanesque, outfit the interiors with a new altar, mosaic and murals, library, dining hall and study rooms for 20 brown-robed monks. Those monks will call their habitation Bonfils Memorial Monastery...
Chuckle in Bandages. Should ballots make Léon Blum Premier and bullets not turn him out of office,*he and his Socialist Party are pledged first gradually to transform the "Capitalist society" of France into a "Collectivist society." Next they would strive to create for the world an international currency of constant and unfluctuating value with international bonds paying a modest rate of interest secured by all the world's governments. The lucrative armament industry would be made a State monopoly and its profits secured in toto by the State...
Since the case against the holding company was so strong, wrote Messrs. Schwab & Grace, Bethlehem was about to transform itself into an operating company, absorb four subsidiaries, "as the initial steps in a consolidation program." Still outside the fold are some 60 other Bethlehem subsidiaries including the most important ones...
...Charles on his side. When the Lord High Admiral resigned, no successor was appointed, and Pepys became Secretary. He made the fur fly. He put down "corruption, laissez-faire and boozy optimism" with a stern official hand. Says Biographer Bryant: "By his precept and example Pepys was to transform an inchoate and ill-directed service into the most enduring, exact and potent instrument of force seen on this disorderly planet since the days of Imperial Rome...