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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...J. Carroll Cone, an assistant vice president of Pan American Airways. A dedicated Democrat from Arkansas, Cone corralled money even from Dixiecrat & Republican friends, kept up good relations for Pan Am on the Democratic side of the fence. Cone gave $3,000 himself, collected $300,000 and had a hand in bringing the trainmen's A. F. Whitney backing into the Truman roundhouse...
Indicted with Bridges were two of his . International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's lieutenants. They are Texas-born Vice President J. R. ("Bob") Robertson and German-born Henry ("The Dutchman") Schmidt, who is currently running Bridges' four-week-old tie-up of Hawaiian shipping...
Husky Ralph J. Bunche, the U.S. diplomat who negotiated the Palestine armistice for U.N., went to the White House last week for a talk with Harry Truman. The President had asked him to become an Assistant Secretary of State, the highest Government post ever offered a Negro. Bunche was greatly honored, he told President Truman-but he had decided to turn it down...
...usual, not all the reviews were favorable. "The civil union of an Indian prince and his girl friend by a Communist functionary," sneered Los Angeles' Father Thomas J. McCarthy in his tabloid Tidings. Moaned A.P.'s Hal Boyle: "A strictly grade B script . . . how bad can times get?" The script was no worse than Rita's touted The Lady from Shanghai; like the film, it was expensive, pointless, and covered a lot of geography...
Penny-pitching is no doubt universal, but where else do they pick an "Olympic" champion (Lowell's is Alan J. Green'48) and where else does a "syndicate" operate to clean up most of the winnings