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...Mayor Cermak called his City Council into special session to whip through the appointment, had the new commissioner sworn in immediately, ordered him to crusade at once against organized crime. The new commissioner laconically remarked: "I'm not tickled to death with this job." Last of loud William Hale Thompson's appointees, retiring Commissioner Alcock held his job for six months after Mayor Cermak took office. Observers said that this period of grace was granted because Alcock refused to take orders from Mayor Thompson after Mayor Cermak was elected and before he took office. That Alcock confidently expected...
...second change of management was the dropping of Amadeo Peter Giannini, his brother Dr. Attilio H. Giannini, his not robust son Lawrence Mario Giannini from the directorate, and also their good & stanch friends Prentis Cobb Hale of San Francisco and George Newell Armsby of California Packing. The long suspected LYNN PORTER TALLEY . . . does not let enthusiasm replace collateral. Giannini-Walker feud broke into the open with this news. Founder Giannini announced his resignation had been presented last June "because I could not approve of the plans, policies and procedure of my successor, Chairman Walker." Ironic was this statement since Founder...
Pullman Co. decided to open an operating department in the East, with a vice president in charge at Philadelphia. Picked for the job: Hale Holden Jr., 33, son of the executive committee chairman of Southern Pacific...
Died. Dr. John Dill Robertson, 60, for seven years Chicago's health commissioner under Mayor William Hale Thompson and later his bitter foe in the 1927 mayoralty election; of angina pectoris; at Fontana...
Louis John Taber, master of the National Grange, declared a 15% rate increase would complete the ruin of agriculture by taking $150,000,000 from U. S. farmers. Arthur Hale, chairman of the Coal Exporters' Association, said a 2,000,000-ton-per-year business would cease if coal rates to ocean ports were upped. The Virginia Corporation Commission sent witnesses to Washington who contended that the railroads' complaints about their credit position had done them more damage than the actual drop in their earnings...