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...lobbying, talked it into prohibiting both inheritance and income taxes in Nevada. Then, well armed with the names and idiosyncrasies of wealthy prospects, he set out to sell bankrupt ranches as tax havens, and was soon transplanting millionaires to Nevada's soil-e.g., Bing Crosby, Max Fleischmann, Bronx Politico Ed Flynn, Automobile Magnate Errett Lobban Cord, Stock Broker Dean Witter...
Cowles is president of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, and chairman of the board of Cowles Magazines Inc. Daley and Fleck are members of investment firms, and Fleischmann is a lawyer who formerly headed the Defense Production Administration...
Hannagan showed him how. He operated his own news agency, wired out bulletins of legitimate news, never let anyone forget where it came from. Sample : FLASH JULIUS FLEISCHMANN DROPPED DEAD ON THE POLO FIELD HERE THIS AFTERNOON DON'T FORGET MIAMI BEACH DATELINE. He combed Miami Beach high schools for pretty girls, made tabloid editors happy with pictures of them romping in bathing suits beneath the palms. Union Pacific sent him out to look over the site of an Idaho ski resort it planned to name Ketchum after the nearest town. Snorted Hannagan: "The columnists will soon be cracking...
...mobilization effort has been without a permanent overall boss since Charles E. Wilson quit last March as director of the Office of Defense Mobilization. Last week Harry Truman moved to fill the gap. After accepting the resignation of Manly Fleischmann, boss of the Defense Production Administration, who wants to go back to private law practice, he named Henry H. ("Joe") Fowler, head of the National Production Authority, to take over from Fleischmann...
Last week DPAdministrator Manly Fleischmann found that the armed services had allocated 20 million more pounds of aluminum than they could use under the "stretch-out" arms program. He granted an extra 1,000,000 Ibs. for the auto industry. As a result, the industry, which had been authorized to turn out 930,000 cars in the second quarter but allowed only enough copper and aluminum for 800,000, hoped it might be able to boost its production closer to the authorized quota...