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...Penney's prohibitive fervor extends even to tobacco. He is one of the few U. S. employers who will discharge a helper for smoking a cigaret at his work...
...Salt Lake City, where he took a job in the Rio Grande & Western roundhouse. He got married and began studying in the International Correspondence School. Soon came his first big "break," the blown-out cylinder head, now famed among Chrysler admirers, which he and a helper mended in time to send the mail-train out on schedule...
...Editor Battisti, always short handed, was assisted by the General Secretary of the local Socialist trade unions, one Benito Mussolini, an Italian youth who had worked for a time as a hod carrier in Switzerland and then picked up enough French to earn his living by teaching it. Helper Mussolini wrote perhaps a quarter of each daily issue of Il Popolo. He cleaned up editorial and publicational odd jobs innumerable. Then he snatched time to write the paper's weekly feuilleton or "feature," which was most often a Socialist tract or homily, occasionally a short story, and only once...
Walter Percy Chrysler is from Kansas.* He was a shop helper; he became a mechanic, a superintendent, a general manager. When William Crapo Durant was first ousted from General Motors control (1911; again 1920) and Charles W. Nash (now chairman of Nash Motors) became General Motors president, Engineer Chrysler became Buick's general manager. He developed the steel body for Buicks; increased the output, cut production costs...
...obtuse, but I must say I fail to catch the meaning of the title under Senator Walsh's picture this week (TIME, March 12). You say he is "Mrs. Harriman's helper" when the article alongside says that Mrs. Harriman helped him. Please explain...