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...Books, July 4 issue, in the story of the present bestsellers, TIME states that the two best-selling books of the week at The Emporium's bookstore in San Francisco were Heidi Grows Up and Ferdinand. I assume that you chose The Emporium as a store whose sales are representative of San Francisco as a whole, i.e., Heidi Grows Up and Ferdinand were San Francisco's best-sellers last fortnight...
...Original developer of the modern field of personal financing were the Morris Plan banks. Two years ago New York Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora ordered Founder A. J. Morris and four other directors of Industrial Finance Corp., parent of Morris Plan banks, to pay stockholders $400,000 they had made in a side-deal (TIME, Nov. 30, 1936). Last week the Appellate Division unanimously reversed Judge Pecora, found "no dereliction of duty...
...Francisco and Los Angeles together account for two percent of the U. S. book business. At the Emporium in San Francisco two children's books, Heidi Grows Up and Ferdinand, outsold popular novels; at Bullock's in Los Angeles The Yearling and The Citadel were crowded hard by Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Emily Post's Etiquette...
...June 6). Because Vic Donahey knows he is not a born inquisitor like such famed Senators as Black, Wheeler, Nye, La Follette and the late Tom Walsh, his committee last week retained a paid inquisitor just as the Senate's Wall Street investigation in 1933-34 hired Lawyer Ferdinand Pecora. The TVA committee's choice: Francis Biddle, 52, a Philadelphia lawyer who followed Franklin Roosevelt through Groton and Harvard into the New Deal, served as chairman of NLRB in NRA days. Mr. Biddle, although once attorney for such great corporations as the Pennsylvania Railroad and A. & P. chain...
Honeymooning in the U. S., Prince Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern and his bride, Princess Kyra, stopped off at Detroit, visited the Ford assembly line where Prince Louis once worked. Said a former fellow worker: "Hello, Louey, I see you finally got hooked...