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...Paris last week Finnish Minister Dr. Harri Holma told newspapermen that unless Finland gets more help quickly Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim's army is "condemned to death." In Helsinki sturdy old President Kyosti Kallio once more offered to negotiate "an honorable peace." This was no more than Finland had been offering since the war began,* but it proved to the Finns who are getting hurt in this war that their Government is always willing to negotiate. And Minister Holma's scare talk was less a cry of desperation than a part of the Finnish campaign...
...match or sitting in on a game of bridge or poker, which he plays expertly, with considerable bluffing. He likes to be where his hosts of bigwig friends are com ing & going, where cronies like Joseph Tumulty, Marvin Mclntyre and Steve Early can drop in on him and Mrs. Harri son at their pleasant home on Cathedral Avenue. But Pat Harrison currently yearns to get away from all this as soon as he can because he is facing his first serious campaign for re-election since he went to the Senate 17 years ago. Reason: Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo...
...week these two great shoes of the late great Harriman were shuffled. Southern Pacific, the left shoe, was returned from regional management to one-man control under tall, taciturn Hale Holden. Union Pacific, the right shoe, was given over to the late great Harriman's son, William Averell Harri man, now 40 and ready to undertake his greatest heritage...
...election of William Averell Harri man to chairmanship of the system his father built was foreshadowed a year ago when he became chairman of the executive committee of Illinois Central (25% U. P. controlled), marking his first major entrance into railroads. Son Harriman. who was 1 8 when his father died in 1909, has exhibited diligence and ambition as a businessman but has yet made no great name for himself. His financial backing has come largely from his mother. Mrs. Mary W. Harriman, who describes herself in Who's Who as "sole heir upon death of husband to estate...
...other war financiers, George R. Cooksey and Floyd R. Harri son, both of Washington...