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Thirty-eight years ago a panty-waisted young bucko who had quit Buffalo Bill's circus for prospecting whirled into Manhattan, met handsome Socialite-Banker Julian M. Gerard, brother of World War I Ambassador to Germany James W. Gerard. Charmed and impressed, Gerard grubstaked Death Valley Scotty (Walter Scott) to $10,000, made a contract to get 22½% of all nuggets he found. Ever since, Death Valley Scotty has been talking about his hidden gold mines, and though Scotty has gone through a lot of money, Banker Gerard has never seen any of it. Last week...
What scared OPM was that the strike might spread from Buffalo to other Bethlehem plants-Pottstown, Lebanon, Johnstown, the big parent plant at Bethlehem itself. In danger of disruption or complete stoppage was work on a $1,500,000,000 Government contract...
...weeks before, Knudsenhillman, OPM's doubleheaded boss, had tried and signally failed to untangle the Allis-Chalmers strike (TIME, March 3). Knudsenhillman took another deep breath, summoned Bethlehem spokesmen and union heads to Washington. While striking workers fought with Buffalo police, William Knudsen and Sidney Hillman labored for peace...
Died. Andrew Jameson, 85, pink-cheeked, buffalo-hunting chairman of John Jameson & Son, Ltd., makers of Irish whiskey; in Dublin. "I was reared on Jameson's whiskey," he once observed...
...Roman Catholic Bishop of Buffalo, the Most Rev. John A. Duffy, told a Catholic Charities luncheon: "The spirit of our country today, as represented by the vocal minority, is a spirit of internationalism. . . . They are promoting every cause that has no more connection with the future of America than the condition of the Martians on the planets beyond an astronomer's ken. . . . The continent of Europe is finished-westward will the course of empire make its way. All the efforts that we make to re-establish a past condition in continental Europe will be falsified under the very hydraulic...