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...mopped up $1,000,000 worth of graft, had swept out gambling and vice rackets which took in $20,000,000 a year, had pitchforked nearly a dozen city officials and scores of corrupt policemen. Now the middeny stables were sweet-smelling again. The name of this Hercules: Homer Ferguson...
Leading scorer in Sunday's game was Barney Ferguson, who was responsible for two trios. Davies Ives also scored once, while Frank Swirles added to the total by converting after two of the goals. Marsh Holleb, although he did not score, was influential in setting up the tallies by his hard running throughout the contest...
...captain and broad jumper, Frank Swirles, who played football at the University of Southern California, and Mountain will be the starting backs. Others who will start are Bill Whiting, Dick Dowry, George Waters, Irv Gerson, Bill Nelson, Bill Pugh and Charlie Sharpe, forwards; Jim Warren, scrum half, and Barney Ferguson, stand...
...Ferguson still thought his plan was good. He has a little subsidiary (200 employes) called Hartford Electric Steel, which not only makes castings for Navy submarines, but has long been a laboratory of labor relations. When C.I.O. organizers came to Hartford a few years ago, the steel workers asked, and got, a promise of ⅓ of the monthly profits -and the organizers went away. Hartford Electric Steel profit-sharing now amounts to a tidy $40 per month per employe. Last December Sam decided that Hartford Electric Steel was a good place to try the Ferguson post-war wage-cushion plan...
Separation wages are merely the latest front on which Sam Ferguson, 68, implements his faith in progressive private enterprise. A pioneer in low utility rates, power pools, the mercury turbine, many another social and technological change, he is a Yankee individualist who also knows what year it is. Last month he told his stock holders that Hartford Electric Light Co. would have a new policy for the duration : "to increase the amount of earnings to be converted into taxes." That meant fewer reserves, no additions to surplus. But not even unorthodox Sam Ferguson wants to go broke paying taxes...