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Dates: during 1940-1949
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STANISLAW R. J. SUCHECKI Dorchester, Mass...
With the backing of influential, politically ambitious Inquirer Publisher Walter Annenberg, he set out to work a minor revolution: nominating new men for Philadelphia's key "row offices"-controller, city treasurer, coroner and register of wills. This meant scuttling an old party wheelhorse, Controller Frank J. Tiemann, who was up for re-election in November. Meade refused to give him the party blessing for the primary. In the process, Meade almost lost one of his strongest political allies, heavy, red-faced Sheriff Austin Meehan. "Frank's my pal," cried the sheriff. "He's in trouble...
...England's Lord Chief Justice and Viceroy of India. Before he became Ambassador Lord Reading had served his country well in the U.S. The story goes that he asked the House of Morgan for a billion dollars in war credits. "I'll give you half that," said J. P. Morgan. Reading agreed. Half a billion was what he had been instructed to ask for. ¶ Sir Ronald Lindsay (1930-39). Six ft. 3 in. tall, he resembled a contented moose. When he held a huge garden party for his visiting King in 1939, he coolly consoled those...
LISTEN TO THE MOCKING BIRD (153 pp.) -S. J. Perelman-Simon & Schuster...
Main Chance. At Pryor, Okla., when his boat capsized, J. E. Stamper lost his shirt, hat, shoes, three rods & reels and the outboard motor, but managed to hold on to the 50-lb. catfish he was trying to land...