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Investigation of Hughes-Kalser contracts continued yesterday with examination of Grover Loening, former special consultant to the war production board. This witness remained vague as to Elliot Roosevelt's role in the dispensation of government contracts, but he particularly exonerated "the White House" of any favoritism...
...from rags to riches. They were General Electric's Charles E. Wilson, onetime $4-a-week shipping clerk, and I. J. Fox, who ran one fur coat into the largest U.S. fur chain. The rags of the other Alger boys had been well tailored. Coty's Grover Whalen was the son of a prosperous New York contractor; Pepsi-Cola's Walter S. Mack Jr. had struggled up from Harvard. But all remained true to the Alger tradition. They waived a testimonial dinner; they were too busy. Railroader Robert S. Young, also chosen, was too busy even...
...plain citizens would have to step out of character and match, or better, the Mexican enthusiasm. The Protocol Division's patient, able Stanley Woodward was worried. He called on the Army, Navy, Marines, school officials, the Washington Board of Trade and even New York's master greeter, Grover Whalen, to plan a spectacle that Latin American and even Hollywood itself might whistle...
Died. Major General John Henry Russell, 74, veteran leatherneck; in Coronado, Calif. At 14, Russell solemnly promised Grover Cleveland that he would succeed if granted a presidential appointment to Annapolis, eventually succeeded in being...
...Yardlings have an undefeated record, at the expense of M.I.T. and Brown, to uphold, and will be out to emulate their captain, Charlie Grover, who will probably come out on top in the 220-yard freestyle. Other able operators priming the Crimson lineup are Art Sicular, Wins-low Briggs, and Wayne Barnet...