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...quiet way he made a quite thorough investigation of how to pass these things. First, he slithered up the steps of the Widow to see how matters went along there. Prying with praiseworthy dispatch, albeit with unnecessary quietude, into the files he found that the amiable Old Lady was never had one of her devotees flunk. Encouraging news, to put it mildly...
...York, Santiago and to Montevideo, giving as the reason for the petition: losses of 4,000,000 pesos. This reason was never given the Argentine Government and was officially refuted by NYRBA officials. Petition for cancelation of contract was made in order to simplify readjustment of routes and mail dispatch between the two American companies which will now fly out of Argentina and Uruguay-Pan American Grace Airways over the Andes and northward via the West Coast, and Pan American Airways northward directly up the East Coast, over the NYRBA route...
Democrats of Texas last week held their run-off primary to nominate a governor. The candidates: Ross Shaw ("Big Fat Boy") Sterling, wealthy publisher of the Houston Post Dispatch (circulation: 69,000), chairman of the State Highway Commission; and Mrs. Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson, onetime (1925-1927) governor. No. 1 Sterling stumpster: Governor Dan Moody. No. 1 Ferguson stumpster: Husband James E. ("Farmer Jim") Ferguson, removed by impeachment from the governorship in 1917. The issues: "Fergusonism"; "Common People" v. "Millionaires." Never before had Texas been through such a bitter personal campaign as followed the first primary a month ago when...
...invited. President Karl Bickel of United Press heard about it, hurriedly telephoned Col. Lindbergh, received belated admittance for Acme, an apology, an invitation to luncheon. ? Ridder papers: New York Staats-Zcitung, Herald, Journal of Commerce, Jamaica (N. Y.), Long Island Press. Seattle Times (minority interest), St. Paul Dispatch, Pioneer Press; Aberdeen, S. Dak. American, News...
Anglo-Canadian Pulp & Paper Mills, Ltd. (controlled by Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Lord Rothermere; brother of late great Lord Northcliffe; owner of London Daily Mail, London Evening News, Sunday Dispatch, Northcliffe Newspapers, Ltd.), consolidated with Canada Power & Paper Corp. (controlled by Sir Herbert Samuel Holt and James Henry Gundy who recently [TIME, June 2] consolidated Canadian steel and coal properties). The combined companies, 97% British and Canadian controlled, will have daily newsprint capacity of 2,500 tons, largest in British Empire...