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There are five independent councilors, but in the last election councilor Alfred E. Vellucci refused to support the independent choice, claiming it was his turn to be mayor. The independ- ent, Andrew T. Trodden, was finally defeated when Vellucci joined with the councilors to elect Crane...
...shock was felt most keenly by Livermore's other paper, the Herald and News, a triweekly that has been around for 86 years. Some of the Independ ent's sudden growth has come right out of the Herald and News's ad accounts. Says Robert Penland, Herald and News publisher: "We're probably going to have to work a little harder." Even if he does, his new competitor will retain one distinct advantage. Robert Penland sells his paper; Joan Kinney gives her Independent away free...
...begin with, Packard and Studebaker will have about 3% of the total auto mar ket. The big question is whether the new company will be big enough to compete successfully against the Big Three. Roaring along at full speed, the giants have pulled even farther ahead of the independ ents this year. General Motors now has 48% of the market, Ford 31%, Chrysler 15%-a total of 94%. Around Detroit last week, the talk is of still another merger eventually. This time auto experts believe it will be between Studebaker-Packard and the newly formed American Motors (Nash and Hudson...
...year, where he was sent to investigate slavery, when he was retired. Puerto Ricans. who have not had a taste of methodical Army administration for 33 years, could look forward to a square deal, but a firm one. This week the Hawes-Cutting Bill, designed to grant the Philippines independ ence within ten years, was to lapse automatically. A year had gone by without the Philippine Legislature's calling for a general vote on the measure. After a talk with President Roosevelt. New Mexico's Senator Cutting declared: "There is no sense in extending the measure...
...city debt is now one of our greatest problems. For the reduction of expenditure, city planning conferences were formed, but these soon outgrew their utility by accumulating such independ- ence that they caused over-expenditure. We now have an expert who makes surveys of various localities, and looks into their needs. Associated with this is the new principle of borrowing money only for permanent improvements. These two factors have, by centralizing our expenses, so materially decreased our borrowing that there have been but two loans necessary during the present administration...
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