Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second largest town in the entire southwestern quarter of Iowa (Council Bluffs the exception) and Crestonians are proud of its up-and-comingness. Crestonman Elmo Roper of FORTUNE Survey needs take no poll to know that. And you'll hear more about Creston if Crestonman Frank Phillips is successful in his present quest for a rich oil pool beneath the famous bluegrass (and corn) fields of this area. Creston even had three daily newspapers when Crestonman Gerald P. Nye was behind this very desk...
Last week, Attorney General Frank Murphy, accompanied by Chief J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI, suddenly appeared in Kansas City, Mo. This was but one stop for them, they said, on a whirlwind, 48-hour "inspection trip" to five big Midwest cities. Mr. Murphy explained that his mission was to tell his U. S. District Attorneys to snap into their work, clean up their dockets, above all not to cringe and flinch before any political overlords...
Laurence Hills was Washington correspondent for the New York Sun in 1920 when Frank Andrew Munsey bought the New York Herald and with it the Paris edition. Hills asked Munsey to let him run the Paris Herald and got, with the job, Munsey's blunt opinion that "there is no need of a first-class newspaperman on the Herald." Laurence Hills, then 40, remade the paper nevertheless. He threw out the French departments, put in United Press service, used airplanes to get his paper to London and Amsterdam, upped daily stock quotations from five or six to 600. Hills...
Inability to get capital financing was one complaint that jelled last year at the Small Businessmen's Conference (TIME, Feb. 14, 1938, et seq.). Since then three bills have been introduced in Congress to improve credit lines to small business. Last week Acting SEC Chairman Jerome Frank announced that all three bills would be held in abeyance while SEC and the Junior Chamber of Commerce collaborated in a study of the problem...
Under the direction of a young SEC lawyer named Peter H. ("Handyman") Nehemkis Jr., surveys will be made in 561 towns and cities. SEC itself will concentrate on ten "representative" cities.* Already well under way, the job is to be finished by June 1. Said Jerome Frank: "We want to drench ourselves in facts." A sample question small businessmen will be asked: What per cent of your inventories have you borrowed against...