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Died. Charles Franklin Anderson, 69, U.S. Post Official (cancellation expert), who was sent to the South Pole with the second Byrd expedition in 1934, set up shop in an ice cave to cancel the stamps on the expedition's 100,000 letters; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...start of Gene Talmadge's last campaign for Governor, three local businessmen suggested that a favorable editorial policy would bring the paper an expensive ad for their candidate. Miss Edna told them they ought to have more gallantry toward a woman. Later, another businessman threatened to cancel his advertising unless the Free Press let up on Talmadge. "All right," said Miss Edna, "you can cancel, but I'll give you one free ad. I'll write it and tell why you canceled. That's blackmail, I suppose, but I learned about it from you." The advertising...
...year after the war, nearly 20 million war workers and servicemen will look for employment. Prices must be kept down, he argued, so that soaring costs will not cancel the people's savings before the flood of civilian goods takes the place of war production...
...Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which is near Hitler's Berchtesgaden eyrie. Strauss refused. As an old man of 80, he said, he felt entitled to privacy and peace. Nazi officials took the matter to Hitler himself. The Führer declared that Strauss's recalcitrance would mean the cancellation of his birthday celebrations throughout the Reich. Strauss replied that Hitler could cancel anything he wished, and added: "It was not I who started this...
When terminating war contracts, he added, the government might find it profitable in the long run to purchase unneeded war material or cancel contracts only in part so as to prevent an immediate slump in the national economy...