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Last January the bonfire girls found a match: the U. S. Government had never officially appointed her to her post. Franklin Roosevelt quietly appointed a chum of Mesdames Perkins, Dewson and his wife -Mary Winslow of Washington-to the "vacancy." But Miss Stevens thwarted the bonfire girls. She refused to leave office...
...Miss Stevens got a sop. Her chum, and coworker, Minerva Bernardino of the Dominican Republic, was put in as vice chairlady to run things as satrap for the lady from Argentina...
...That's Muszyk to my Ayres," said his chum. "You Gardella...
...sorry, chum," he said. "May I help you to your feet...
Goodyear reported first half sales up 23%, profits up 116% to $3,610,595 from the year before. Boss of Goodyear is opinionated, poker-playing Paul W. Litchfield, who has tough Steelmaster Tom Girdler on his board. Litchfield is a great dirigible booster, a chum of Germany's Zeppeliner Dr. Hugo Eckener. In 1936 he wanted to nominate Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh for Vice President on the Republican ticket. Last spring he urged the U. S. to barter (as it soon did) surplus cotton for a stockpile of rubber which a war would shut...