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...convicting the A & P in a criminal suit (and fining it $250,000), Illinois Federal Judge Walter Lindley found there was evidence that the A & P had time & again sold below cost to beat down rivals in price wars or to gain volume by switching profits from its non-retail subsidiaries to stores that lost money. Moreover, he found that A & P's buying subsidiary, Atlantic Commission Co. (Acco), so dominated the produce market that it not only bought the best produce for A & P but sold what it did not want to A & P's competitors...
Hence it was not a complete surprise to William Polk when he learned, as he describes it, that Ernest K. Lindley, head of Newsweek's Washington Bureau, had suggested to newsmen that Polk not be permitted to go to Greece...
...make clear this stand and to refute Lindley, William Polk had to find a sounding board. He chose the Progressive Party and Henry Wallace, a choice which today he admits was his "worst mistake." As a result, Wallace got up at his now famous press conference during the Progressive Party's Philadelphia convention and implied to the assembled newsmen that they should be ashamed of themselves for not risking their necks to get news as George Polk had done. Hence instead of getting across the point William Polk had wanted emphasized, that Lindley's action was, he believed, motivated...
...Lindley, a dour, bristle-haired lawyer who has been a Stassen strategist since the time Stassen was a brash county attorney bucking the G.O.P. machine for nomination as governor. He is treasurer of the Minnesota Fund, holds the purse...
Much is also expected of the defence. O'Hearn, who, according to his play before his injury last year, should be able to show some excellent work, is paired with Lindley, a member, of last year's Freshman team. Both of these men are noted, not only for their defensive work, but for their offensive ability. In the goal, the Elis have Jenkins, also from last year's Freshmen, a brilliant but comparatively inexperienced player. The fact that the Saint Nicholas Hockey Club scored but four goals against him, in the first of the two games Yale has played, seems...