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...trucks until the end of the War. The War brought it big orders and a reputation for performance. In the Battle of Verdun the only White trucks to break down were those disabled by shells. 'The result was that 2,500 of them received the distinction of France's Croix de Guerre. Geared to truck production, White decided to specialize in it after the War, just as Packard decided to specialize in passenger cars. The White line is now complete, from light city delivery wagons to heavy duty trucks, patrol cars, armored cars, busses. Last year it sold...
Cobourg, Ontario, the son of a laborer. He went to France with the 69th (which became the 168th Infantry) as its chaplain and later was commissioned a Major. For bravery under fire Father Duffy received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, the Croix de Guerre with Palm; he was made a member of the Legion of Honor, cited for valor. He was called "the ideal army chaplain and the ideal parish priest" by Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Said Father Duffy: "If anybody sticks a pin into me, he'll find that I'm very American, very Irish...
When he returned to the U. S. he had with him a Croix de Guerre and a Swedish wife. First he was made business manager of INS; in 1928 he became its president and general manager. Like most Hearstmen, he was sensitive to the vast organization's undercurrents. Year before last he said he was going to resign to direct publicity for Abraham & Straus, Inc., Brooklyn department store. Whether or not that is the job he will take when he gets back from Europe, Newsman Mason would...
...President Hoover's description of the former Danish West Indies is correct but Americans must blame themselves for the condition there. American laws have absolutely ruined St. Croix where the finest rum in the world was formerly produced. Everything stagnated after the Americans prohibited its manufacture...
...Virgin Islands (St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John), bought from Denmark in 1917 for $25,000,000, presented a similar economic problem. Their 95% Negro population had been squeezed off the farming land. Their rum trade had been blighted by Prohibition. Their sugar plantations and factories were close to collapse. Last month following a six-month investigation by Chief Herbert Brown of the Bureau of Efficiency, President Hoover transferred the Islands' administration from the Navy to the Interior Department. To set up a new civil government and pull the Virgin Islanders out of their economic hole President Hoover appointed...