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...afternoon last week in the assembly room on the 23rd floor of the Manhattan headquarters of Western Union Telegraph Co., suave old Board Chairman Newcomb Carlton fingered a gavel, peered out anxiously at 200 faces, more of Western Union's 30,772 stockholders than he had ever seen at one time. Western Union's President Roy Barton White, stocky old-time railroad telegrapher, was reading a prepared statement explaining why Western Union had lost $1,637,000 in 1938. When perspiring President White lamely concluded that the report was the company's and not to be considered...
...Newcomb Carlton imperiously whacked his gavel, a short, balding, dimpled little man circulated happily through the muttering crowd. He was Stockholder Arthur C. Flatto,* enjoying a day to which he had looked forward for many months...
...Other Washingtonians faced the embarrassment in various ways. New York's Laborite Senator Wagner fled from the picket-bound Shoreham to Manhattan. Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, C. I. 0. Vice Presidents Sidney Hillman and Philip Murray moved out of the Carlton, Mrs. Mordecai Ezekiel (whose husband is economist in the Department of Agriculture) picketed in evening dress. SECommissioner Jerome Frank stayed on at the Wardman Park Hotel and Senator & Mrs. Millard Tydings at the Shoreham. Those who passed the Mayflower picket line included the Bankheads (Senator & Speaker), Senators J. Hamilton Lewis, Carter Glass, Walter George, Arthur Capper, Clyde Herring, Kenneth...
When a lawyer named Carlton Cole Magee bought the Albuquerque morning Journal from Albert Bacon Fall and friends in 1920, Senator Fall with childish candor told him most of New Mexico's political secrets, incidentally confessed he was broke. With this information Lawyer Magee turned crusader, fought the Fall machine tooth & nail, was jailed for libel and mauled by political thugs, finally forced to sell his paper. It was a Magee telegram to Senator Thomas James Walsh concerning Fall's finances that made Teapot Dome a criminal case. By 1923 another Magee paper, the State Tribune, was foundering...
Aside from entering Rawstrom in the furlong and quarter-mile, the Gymnast coach, Charlie Silvia, won't have much to offer the Crimson mermen. Frank Powers ought to keep Rawstrom busy in the 220, while Captain Rusty Greenhood is a sure winner over Bob Monerly and Carlton Condon in the dive...