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...conjunction with the Centennial celebration, Carmichael announced yesterday that the school had received a gift of one million dollars from an anonymous industrialist. Tufts now has $2,700,000 of a present drive for $4,200,000. The money will be added to the endowment fund...
...fortune in Florida real estate, spent many a lean year ("I saw the time when I couldn't pay my grocery bill") until World War II found him with an interest in the war-rich Tampa Shipbuilding Co. In it, he made a lasting alliance with Florida Industrialist Louis Wolfson, 40, who had made millions from a grab bag of enterprises, ranging from ships, bridges, movie theaters, and plumbing supplies to selling scrap iron.* For $2,000,000 in 1945, he scooped up a surplus shipyard which cost the Government $20 million, liquidated it and cleared more than...
...nomination, offers no serious threat to Kem. But now Democrats are talking about W. Stuart Symington, the retiring RFC boss. Some liberal Republicans who don't like Kern's record, and a good many businessmen who normally would vote Republican, might go for Symington, onetime St. Louis industrialist. There has been speculation, too, that Kem might have to face the old master himself, that Harry Truman might step down and run for Kern's seat...
...Industrialist (Emerson Electric Co.) Symington has never been a Truman yes man. As the first Air Secretary, he fought the Army, the Navy and the President, insisting on a 70-group Air Force...
Harmless Crackpot? Then Houston Lawyer-Industrialist Roy Hofheinz, 39, who had opened a 50,000-watt radio station, KSOX, in Harlingen, joined the attack on Hoiles in an all-out crusade over the air. His station also began taking ads away from the Hoiles papers. Partly because he was pinched by this competition, and partly because they disagreed with him, Hoiles fired the three editors who had stayed on when he bought the papers...