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...high dudgeon, Wyatt denied that NHA was involved in any such skullduggery. True, there had been a phone call to NHA from "a lawyer" who represented himself as acting for Tucker. The lawyer had asked NHA to hold up the Lustron deal. But the delay was routine. When the lawyer had called back and said "the deal was off," the plant had been ordered turned over to Lustron...
Many editors are aware of W.N.U. chiefly as a Chicago editorial office whose boss, Farnham Dudgeon, helps them fill their papers. Dudgeon steers his writers away from controversy, into innocuous, bland writing that will offend neither Republican nor Democratic editors. For papers which get their W.N.U. service ready-printed, and thus have no advance editorial control over its content, he takes special pains to handle religion, politics, etc. so that nothing positive is said. The most popular feature is the "improved" Sunday-school lesson written by a Moody Institute...
...high dudgeon, OPA Boss Chester Bowles last week got after the clothing industry. He charged that manufacturers are deliberately making the clothing shortage worse, that they are holding back on shipments till after Jan. 1, to take advantage of the repeal of the excess-profits tax. Said Bowles: "The public's need for clothes seems to mean little to some producers...
...high dudgeon, Mr. Bloomingdale (who does not want his 12% ownership of Federated lessened by a new stock issue) tossed off a letter to stockholders. He said-and minced no words saying it - that Federated's $100,000-a-year bigwigs had all the incentive they need. The plan, he wrote, is actually a device to give executives a salary increase "not subject to ordinary income taxes" but only to capital-gains taxes (25%). For example, said angry Mr. Bloomingdale, if Fred Lazarus should make $50,000 by a rise in the price of any stock purchased, "he would...
...Dudgeon. In Middletown, Conn., Angelo Salafia, classified IA, was fined $100 for painting on his draft-board chairman's sidewalk: "Connell-what have you done for the war effort...