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...months ago the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's veteran cartoonist Cy Hungerford sat chatting with an old friend, George Shaffer Sherman, advertising manager of Pittsburgh's Rosenbaum department store. Somehow the conversation got around to a subject in which neither was more than academically interested: FBI's investigation of sabotage in defense plants. But before they had parted they had thought of an idea that excited them both: a series of posters to encourage factory workers to obey regulations and keep their mouths shut. Hungerford and Sherman took their idea to FBI's J. Edgar Hoover...
Last week their first batch of twelve anti-sabotage posters was in use. Each had a sharply pointed Hungerford cartoon, an admonitory paragraph by Sherman, ended with the slogan: "You are a production soldier . . . America's first line of defense is here." Sample: A dope in overalls talking his head off while Hitler...
Stalin, Mussolini and an unidentified Japanese cock their ears in the background (see cut). Said Hungerford: "We figured that cartoons combining humor with serious fact would have more of an appeal to the average worker than most ordinary conventional posters." Because FBI cannot engage in commercial activity (Hungerford and Sherman expect to make their work pay), it could not sponsor the posters. But by week's end, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. had bought 3,600, Westinghouse 1,680; other defense manufacturers were standing in line for their share...
...dowry for Trans-Canada and agreed, in addition, that the Government would supply fields for the line. It turned over its stock to Government-controlled Canadian National Railways, thus putting Trans-Canada into the arms of C. N. R.'s President Samuel James Hungerford. Sam Hungerford promptly passed Trans-Canada on to a U. S. expert, stubby, taciturn Philip Gustav Johnson. Mr. Johnson had been making trucks in Seattle, Wash, since 1936, after the 1934 Roosevelt airmail purge with its compulsory reorganizations had thrown him out of the presidency of United Air Lines...
Died. Clarence Hungerford Mackay, 64. board chairman of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., husband of onetime Opera Singer Anna Case, father of Mrs. Irving Berlin; after long illness; in Manhattan. From his Irish immigrant father, who made a fortune gold-mining, dapper, debonair, lavishly educated Clarence Mackay inherited Postal Telegraph, worked it up to a $500,000,000 world-wide system. As a Manhattan socialite he played godfather and chief guarantor to many an artistic institution, including the New York Phil-harmonic-Symphony, until Depression began to gnaw away the income from his tremendous fortune...