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...coupons; his doctor said he was not up to train travel. (On his return from the conferences with Cordell Hull, Dulles underwent a two-hour operation on his foot.) In Washington, Mr. Dulles talked with G.O.P. leaders as well as Cordell Hull. Among them: Senators Taft, Vandenberg, Austin, Capper, Hiram Johnson-in effect, all shades of Republican opinion...
...peacetime-conscription bill prompted California's Hiram Johnson to a typical Congressional reaction: "Why does universal peace bring with it the necessity for universal training?" Congress shelved the bill as it has others...
Golden Opportunity. The report also held that the distillers showed "monopolistic tendencies"; that the industry is virtually controlled by the Big Four-Schenley Distillers Corp., Distillers Corp.-Seagrams, National Distillers Products Corp., and Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts. In 1939, the Big Four had 49% of the U.S. whiskey supply in their warehouses; today they have 70%. They got this enormous increase by adding some 127,066,629 proof gallons to their stocks through the purchase of small distillers. (The report did not note that the little companies often willingly took this golden opportunity to get a war-high price...
...Died. Hiram Edward Manville, 71, onetime head of Johns-Manville Corp.; after long illness; in Pleasantville, N.Y. Philanthropist, horseman, yachtsman, he sold his palatial Hi-Esmaro to the Navy in 1940, three years later learned that she had been sunk in the South Pacific...
...head nurse is a broth of a girl named Susan (Miss Dunne again), accompanying her father, Hiram Porter Dunn (Frank Morgan), on a trip to England. Hiram, a 100% American, dis likes suet puddings, spends most of his time in England fighting over the War of 1812 with a 100% British Colonel (C. Aubrey Smith...