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...Warren, Ohio, the first of two men to be tried for kidnapping James Dejute Jr., 12, son of a Niles contractor (TIME, March 14), received the maximum punishment of life imprisonment. The trial took but four hours. A few days later, the other man was given from one to 20 years for harboring the kidnapped...
Columbia had been founded by Publisher H. M. Newman of the Fourth Estate, was affiliated with Columbia Phonograph Co. and the Arthur Judson Concert Bureau. Broadcaster Newman got time on WOR and WABC. Then he sold control to a Philadelphia contractor, Jerome Louchheim. When Contractor Louchheim turned Columbia Broadcasting System over to young William Paley it consisted of WABC and 15 affiliated stations bound under loose contracts, and it was costing him more money every...
...Niles, Ohio last week, James Dejute Jr., 12, son of a well-to-do contractor, was kidnapped on his way to school by two men in a brown coupe. A minister's wife witnessed the abduction. Next day Contractor Dejute received a note demanding $10,000 unless he wanted his boy back ''in installments." Two days after that a posse of local police found the Dejute boy alive and well in a house not ten miles from his home. The kidnappers were found with him. He had been concealed behind a false wall, said he was well-fed but sleepy...
...Once a 20-lei bill was worth $3.86. Today it is worth 12 ¢. Last week, after the new "golden" coins were issued, a contractor called at the Bucharest City Hall to collect a bill for 200,000 (about...
...Certainly, sir," beamed the Civic Cashier. "There is your money!" It consisted of 28 sacks of "golden" coins weighing in all nearly a ton. Grumbling, the contractor took his money, carted it away in a motor truck...