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...Atlanta, Ga., A. E. Shipp, structural steel worker, sued Central Railway of Georgia for $75,000 because, since one of their locomotives hit his automobile, he has suffered from loss of his nerve in the practice of his trade. Said he: ''When I stood on a beam and was hoisted out . . . 190 ft. above the water . . . my face broke out in a cold sweat...
Meanwhile in Augusta, Ga., last week met the executive council of the American Bankers Association. Chief speaker was Rome Charles Stephenson, the association's president, who undertook to defend bankers from the widespread charge that they were the prime agitators for wage cuts (TIME, April 13). He protested that the wages of Capital have been reduced by sliced dividends, lower interest rates. "No banker reduced these wages of money as a matter of personal desire. . . . Anyone knows that wage levels are controlled by impersonal economic principles. . . . I'm not saying wage reductions should be made but it would...
Widow. The Endowment's only woman trustee is Mrs. Nanaline Holt Inman Duke. The Holts are a First Family of Macon, Ga. Her first husband, Walter Inman, was of Atlanta's aristocracy. In 1907, widowed, she married Buck Duke, who had divorced his first wife, Lillian N. McCready. Famed is Daughter Doris Duke (born 1912) who will become a trustee when she reaches her majority. Many a newspaper column has been devoted to Doris and her wealth ($53,000,000), her presentation at the Court of St. James's, her expensive debut at Newport last year (she was supposed...
Sued for Divorce. Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, longtime outfielder, later manager of the Detroit "Tigers" baseball team; by Mrs. Charlie Marion Lombard Cobb; in Augusta, Ga. Charge: "Cruel treatment." Said Mr. Cobb, in San Francisco: "I am surprised and shocked...