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...Department, in Charge of the Maine project, issued denials. Army officers declared that only no loaves of bread a day had been purchased at 'Quoddy in July, denied that any pie had ever been purchased, got an affidavit from William Doyle, 'Quoddy's garbage contractor, who solemnly swore: "At no time have I ever seen pie in the garbage or swill...
...Fact is, the bronzed, silver-thatched speed-on-water champion (124.91 m.p.h.) is the head of a Detroit industrial family which is as tightly-knit, if not so potent, as the Fisher Brothers. There are twelve children in the Wood family, nine of them boys. One is a retired contractor. The other eight own and run Gar Wood Industries. Inc., which is no misnomer. Last week the Brothers Wood let the public in for the first time with an offer of 320.000 shares of their company's 800,000 shares of stock...
...Henry Hunter), released after a two-year term for an automobile accident, falls foul of the parole board. A hardened young criminal (Alan Baxter), who knows the ropes, has no difficulties whatever. It takes a series of murders, a scandalous exposé of the methods of a rich building contractor (Alan Dinehart), quick work on the part of the parolee's onetime cellmate (Grant Mitchell) to produce reforms...
...used $7,000,000 of public funds and only carried the original design of Architects Arthur D. Gilman and Thomas Fuller through the first floor. The graft continued. The handsome metal ceiling that Richardson designed for the Senate Chamber was secretly executed in papier-mache by a political contractor...
...primaries, but split the local G. 0. P. so badly that Democrats from Postmaster General Farley down dared to hope that the City of Friends would this autumn be thoroughly friendly to Democracy for the first time in 50 years. John Bernard ("Jack") Kelly, an enterprising Irish oarsman and contractor who registered as a Democrat only in 1933, was picked by Publisher Julius David Stern of the Philadelphia Record and other ardent Pennsylvania New Dealers to put the city back on the Democratic map. This Nominee Kelly proceeded to do largely by promoting a grand jury case against Nominee Wilson...