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Newsstand sales in the British Isles are the virtual monopoly of a Pickwickian middle-class firm on the walls of whose offices hang life-size portraits of members of the family who died for Queen (Victoria) & Country. It was not a matter of direct government censorship last week but of Pickwickian family pride that for the first time all sales of U. S. newspapers and magazines which mentioned King Edward and Mrs. Simpson (see p. 16) abruptly ceased in England. This was such risky tampering with freedom of the press that those responsible retired, self-abashed, behind closed doors. Queries...
...Williams and a barnstorming pilot named James Robert Wedell, organized Wedell-Williams Air Service Corp., set out to design planes and run an airline. In a Wedell-Williams Racer Jimmy Wedell presently broke the world's landplane speed record. Meanwhile, Tycoon Williams sank $1,000,000 in the firm, made it the world's biggest privately-owned airplane service, flying several routes near New Orleans...
Indicted. Clarence Joseph Morley, 67, onetime (1925-27) Governor of Colorado; for using the mails to defraud investors in his Indianapolis brokerage firm; in Indianapolis...
Swift last week also saw the finishing touches being applied to a meat matter which had caused the firm considerably more cogitation than the Arnold deal. Offered for sale by underwriters, headed by Boston's Jackson & Curtis, was $10,000,000 worth of bonds and stocks in United Stockyards Corp., a new corporate entity which last September purchased Swift's large interests in one Canadian, seven U. S. stockyards. In 1920, to avoid Government prosecution under anti-trust laws, Swift and the other big packers signed "consent decrees" pledging themselves to get rid of stockyard holdings. Wilson...
Lined up on one side are four Ayer directors headed by Harry A. Batten, new Ayer president elected last fortnight. Now 39, President Batten entered the firm as an office boy at 15, worked up through the production and copy departments to a vice-presidency in 1929. He lives in a new $60,000 home in suburban Rosemont, takes direct part in the management of the Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind...