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Striking fact about the industry's 1933 comeback was that although there are some 30 makes of cars in the U. S. all but nine of them sold fewer cars in 1933 than they did in 1932. And all but two (Essex & Austin) of those nine makes are products of the Big Three. Although this growing ascendancy of the Big Three depended largely on the sale of more cheap cars, that was not the whole story. Cadillac and Lincoln, like other high priced cars, found their sales still shrinking, but in the middle and lower middle price brackets...
James Roosevelt, "closest by blood and affection to the man who makes the appointments," last week continued to keep the Massachusetts patronage pot boiling. Thanks to the President's eldest son, a 28-year-old Haverhill drug clerk named John E. Donahue was made receiver for Essex National Bank at $4,000 per year. Receiver Donahue spent three years at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, later mixed prescriptions in his father's drug store. He was ardently "For-Roosevelt-Before-Chicago." Last year he was elected State Representative from a district that had not sent a Democrat...
When they ventured out on their parish rounds village clergymen in the remoter parts of Kent, Essex and Sussex were hooted. Bailiffs who came to force grudging farmers to pay up were stood off with sticks and guns. Some Kentish farmers even dug trenches, remindful of wartime, around the barns in which they kept stock which might be seized. A few boasted that they had strung up electrified barbed wire, shouted, "This is a tithe war!" Infinitely distressed and completely silent was Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. The legal experts of His Majesty's Government assert that...
SLADE OF THE YARD-Richard Essex- McBride ($2). Lessinger confounded Scotland Yard, until Slade (formerly John Barrel, M. P.) sought sleuthing as a road from shame...
...Essex Terraplane claimed the lowest centre of gravity, the highest power per pound. It has a red light which flashes when oil pressure is low, another when the battery...