Word: carles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph L. Grundy, chairman of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association ; Oilman Joseph N. Pew Jr.; Publisher Moses Annenberg (who drank Coca-Colas with a pretty legislative secretary); John M. Flynn, who used to front for Joe Grundy at the State House. A figure new and interesting to Pennsylvanians was Colonel Carl L. Estes, a Texas publisher who was reportedly in the Pew family oil business (Sun Oil Co.), and who by Governor James's first executive order became an Admiral of the Pennsylvania Navy. Admiral Estes has leased a home in Harrisburg, where the Pews can use a good lookout...
...Died. Carl Emil Schultze, 72, famed oldtime cartoonist who created the character of "Foxy Grandpa"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...House of Representatives last week was the Patman anti-chainstore tax bill-so stringent it would kill all interstate chains. The theory of chain-store taxing was thus approaching its major test, and propaganda against it sprouted on every side under the prodding of A. & P. Pressagents Carl Byoir & Co. Most novel prod last week was an exposition of how anti-chain agitation sometimes boomerangs against the wholesalers and independent stores by resulting in increased public recognition of chain's low prices...
...morning of September 29, 1938, a Benld housewife, Mrs. Carl Crum, was working in her yard. Suddenly she was transfixed by a roar and a crash which led her to think that an airplane had fallen nearby. She peered in vain for smoke, wreckage, damage. Mr. McCain came home later to find that a celestial visitor had made a three-point landing on his property, about 50 feet from where Mrs. Crum was standing...
...games this season (a record that still was better than the Hawks had last year at this time), short, squat Bill Stewart was replaced by two men: his crack forward, Paul Thompson (brother of famed Goalie Tiny Thompson of the Detroit Red Wings), and a onetime Hawk named Carl Voss...