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Career. An insurance broker and newspaper publisher on the side, he has been elected to three public offices (Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1912; State Senate in 1914, re-elected 1916; U.S. Congress in 1924, re-elected ever since...
Static. Koons sold the steel, at $215 a ton, to a Cleveland steel broker. It rapidly passed through two other brokers "around the grapevine" until it was bought by Louis Golden, a Detroit broker. Golden paid $300 a ton. On paper, the steel had traveled from Detroit to New York to Cleveland and back to Detroit, and $200 a ton had been added to its price. Actually it never left K-F's warehouse...
...Edward A. Hayes, onetime American Legion national commander. Other MacArthur strategists: Hanford MacNider, also a onetime Legion national commander; Pennsylvania's Congressman James Van Zandt, onetime commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; Nebraska's Congressman Arthur L. Miller; Alfred O'Gara, Chicago investment broker; Fred Zimmerman, Wisconsin's Secretary of State; William Campbell, Wisconsin industrialist...
...splashed across the top of Page One in the daily Oklahoman. Instead of firing him, the impressed senators promoted him to chief page. When he grew up, Townes trained on the Scripps-Howard Cleveland Press, went to Harvard on a Nieman Fellowship (1942). Three years later, with Cleveland Newspaper Broker Smith Davis, he took over the Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald and Journal. Townes gingered it up enough to net him a $55,000 profit when he and Davis sold out last year...
Senator Thomas admitted that he had ordered his broker to close out his holdings. But he was not going to let Senator Homer Ferguson's subcommittee haul him up for a public grilling. He would stand on his congressional immunity. "I'm not going to let them make a Roman holiday out of me," he said...