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...equal relish." Off the parlor was a room furnished with manicuring scissors, hairpins, violet water, lavender salts, scented soap. In the coupon rooms the directors thoughtfully provided threaded needles. Black-bonneted dowagers drove their carriages up to the bank by the hundreds to enter their names in the big ledger book which the bank still uses. In 44 years Fifth Avenue Bank has never omitted dividends on its stock, which sells today for $1,000 per share...
Last thing anybody would take James Henry ("Slim") Carmichael Jr. for is an air pilot. Tall, gaunt, pale, anemic, he looks much more like an undernourished ledger clerk. But "Slim" Carmichael is an iron-nerved airman who got his training in a tough school: flying passengers over the Alleghenies in single-motored Lockheeds. One night last week his nerves and training stood him in good stead...
Meanwhile a Ledger stockholder, alarmed by the Ledger's loss of revenue and good will, persuaded a court to put two trustees in charge. He charged Publisher Russell with "general business mismanagement," and with loaning himself...
Fortnight ago Secretary of Labor Perkins sent a Federal mediator to tackle the strike. Last week, aften ten days of shuttling between both sides, he pocketed an agreement signed by Ledger and Guild. Prime points: 1) Dismissal of all 24 strikebreakers. 2) Rehiring of all strikers. 3) No dismissals for 30 days. 4) An arbitration board to decide the fate of the eight ousted newshawks whose case started the strike. 5) Arbitration board also to settle matters of wages, hours, working conditions, grievances. 6) The Guild to help restitution of the Ledger's lost good will...
...well as to outsiders was the fact that the strike had prevailed, not against a rich strong paper, but against a poor weak one with one foot already in the courts. Therefore the Guild refrained from crowing, claimed only "a substantial victory for Guild principles," promised to make the Ledger "better than ever...