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...President sent to the Senate the name of Thomas F. Woodlock. "He lives in New York," cried Senators from the South. The President could not deny it. "He is a financier, a director of the Pere Marquette Railroad and the St. Louis-San Francisco. He writes for The Wall Street Journal, and even edited it once," cried Western Radicals. The President did not deny this. He even let it be known that Mr. Woodlock owed his appointment to his experience as a financier. The biggest problem now before...
Meantime, Deputy Farinacci, leader of the '"Savage" or reactionary wing of the Fascist Party, extricated himself from the welter of fists and feet, dragging Communist Deputy Damen by the scruff of his neck. Backing his victim up against the wall, the Fascist proceeded to inflict "scientific punishment" in true Italian style, after which he ejected the Communist violently out of a door into a cold, stone corridor. Farinacci, complacent, stalked back to his seat with the air of a man who had nobly performed a noble deed. The remaining Fascisti, taking their cue from Farinacci and totally oblivious...
...Harvard Club of Boston, formerly president of the Harvard Alumni Association and Board of Overseers, maintains in an article appearing in the Alumni Bulletin published today, that there is no foundation for the criticism of the Harvard Overseers as a materialistic group of "narrow-mintled Bostonians" and Wall Street bankers or corporation lawyers...
...which he offers to reform, rebuild, and repopulate the town. One can't help wondering if it was quite right of him to want to do all these things. As part of his agreement he puts forward a dam project with the aid of imaginary telephone conversations with Wall Street, and even succeeds in sending the befuddled owner of the car, who wanders in unexpectedly from Providence, rolling home...
...Haven has recently done, and must therefore look to its bankers- Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the National City Bank. Whether the road is due for a receivership this spring is unknown in financial circles. But the drastic decline in St. Paul stocks and junior bonds indicates Wall Street's opinion that all is not well with the great northwest carrier...