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...certain subventions and free mailing services." That covered Post Office expenditures of $64,000,000?the cost of ocean and air mail subsidies, the estimated cost of carrying free government mail. To create his surplus the Postmaster General had simply lifted this item off the debit side of his ledger...
...Barry saloon for a friendly beer. Barry & Baiata explained that the saloon had just been redecorated and $172 was due the contractor. Would Van Derck honor a check for that amount until the brewery, as was customary, reimbursed them for the redecorating? Van Derck, to oblige, doctored Ledger...
...Insurance Co., which had $13,000,000 of perfectly good assets. Working control could be bought for $400,000. Gathering about him a crew of sharpers, Mr. Baiata arranged to buy the company for $25,000 down, the balance in instalments. Clerk Van Derck provided the down payment from Ledger...
Thus the riddle has not only been solved, but solved beyond possibility of contradiction. Does the student of the fine arts rise to demand a place among artists? One glance in a ledger is sufficient to relegate the wretch to his proper place with the men of science. Thus controversy is eliminated. By one more wise regulation the honor of the administration has been vindicated...
Last week the Guild tried to negotiate with Publisher Russell for reinstatement of the eight, a promise of no further dismissals "without cause" for the present, no hiring of new newsmen for 30 days. He refused. Egged on by President Broun, the Newark Guild called a strike on the Ledger, the first movement of its kind by the Guild against any large metropolitan newspaper. Of 52 staffmen (exclusive of the managing editor and his assistant) 46 walked out, according to the Guild. The local newsdealers' association helped with pamphlets flaying Publisher Russell. Then the publisher offered to arbitrate...