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One protagonist in Washington's latest fracas is tough, shrewd Ferdinand Eberstadt, artillery captain in World War I, outstanding independent investment banker of the '305, and currently charged with WPB's vital materials division. The other is Charles E. Wilson, whom Donald Nelson brought to Washington to...
The fracas started when the Erie Railroad proudly announced that underwriters Morgan, Stanley & Co. would handle a $14,000,000 Erie bond issue. Up rose peppery, dollar-minded Cyrus Stephen Eaton, boss of Cleveland's Otis & Co. and a Midwestern underwriter, who believes that New York financiers get far...
So draft-depleted are the visitors that only 3 men remain from the 20 holdovers who were scheduled to return this winter. Of the six men who start tonght, only two--goalie Ned Kelley and defenseman Chuck DeYoe--opened the last Harvard-Princeton fracas.
After seven years of bucking Hollywood, intense, sensitive, beautiful Cinemactress Frances Farmer, who had never troubled to conform, was in a Los Angeles hospital last week. Given a six months suspended sentence for drunken driving last October, she was hailed to court again last week for getting into a drunken...
Result of this fracas: although the goods are already under way, no setup exists in North Africa to distribute them at the right prices. The price angle is important because French North Africa is suffering from serious inflation. Thus BEW last week was frantically teaching Army and Navy officers how...