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...nation's consumers, whose purchasing power was to be set in motion with a "Buy Now" campaign. Special posters, silhouets of the Capitol in blue, were rolling from the presses. Individual manufacturers were ready to launch private advertising campaigns. General Hugh Johnson declared that the "flat wallet era" was about...
...Conference proper stewed over stabilization (see p.15), Comrade Litvinov bustled busily around London attending to three major outside jobs. In his thick Jewish English and even thicker French he bargained with statesmen of at least eight nations, closed a thumping deal with Professor Raymond Moley. The professor's wallet seemed to contain last week chiefly U. S. $20 bills. Short of English money, he once or twice was seen to borrow taxi fare. In his talks with Comrade Litvinov recognition by the U. S. of the Soviet Union was undoubtedly mentioned but the soft opening wedge was a great...
Least disappointed in the end was Walter J. Salmon. His horse won the race. Held up in Chicago, robbed of his shiny expensive sedan and wallet containing $22, Lawyer Albert Fink of Chicago, counsel for Alphonse ("Snorkey") Capone, pleaded with the gunmen for money to get home...
...John Ernest Buttery Hotson, acting Governor of Bombay Presidency, was inspecting Fergusson College at Poona when a student, one Gokhale, rushed up and fired a pistol point-blank at him. The bullet struck the metal stud of a wallet just above Sir John's heart. Sir John rushed the student, overpowered him, had him arrested, went...
...announced. At the table were his daughter and son, John M. Schiff, graduate of Yale in 1925. After dinner he chatted quietly with his son, who since Jan. 1 has also been his partner in Kuhn, Loeb. About 10:30 he went to his bedroom, put his knife, wallet, loose change and other knickknacks on the dresser, went to bed. About 4 a. m. he awakened and felt a strange sensation near his heart. He arose, put on a silk dressing gown, wrapped himself in a blanket and sat by the window. It was in this position that...