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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Motoring is a Plugge passion; he once drove every foot of the way from New York to Los Angeles and back. Captain Plugge greatly admires U. S. mechanical ingenuity. Last week, while driving over Connecticut's Merritt Parkway, a highspeed, four-lane artery paralleling the cluttered old Post Road, Captain Plugge greatly admired the glass curb reflectors which outline the road at night. He stopped, got out, examined the reflectors minutely with a flashlight. Later he asked the Connecticut Highway Department for samples and manufacturing details, saying he intended to urge installation of the reflectors on English highways...
...bribe-taking. Frank Merriam bumbled that he had heard rumors about his secretary, had not believed them. He also confirmed the report that he once told Mark Megladdery to use State funds to pay $150 in back taxes for Sister Ann Merriam, who runs a private school in Los Angeles. (According to testimony, Secretary Megladdery thought it "would not look good," paid instead with a rubber check, and Miss Merriam eventually ponied up for herself.) Mark Megladdery already had admitted to taking $500 from Barman Bent, insisted it was a campaign contribution...
...transcribes verbal memoranda, conferences, speeches on lightweight plastic discs resembling cellophane. These records can be folded and mailed in ordinary envelopes; two records lasting ten minutes each will go anywhere in the U. S. for 3?. The transcribing machines are also equipped to reproduce. Makers: General Communication Products of Los Angeles...
...Brothers' factory (Springfield, Mass.) it was built for Jacqueline Cochran to fly in a London-Melbourne race. Miss Cochran was forced down at Bucharest. Later the Q.E.D. was entered in four important U. S. races, never finished one. Last year Sarabia bought it from Dealer Charles Babb of Los Angeles...
...securities into the District of Columbia, sentenced to two years in Leavenworth. After leaving prison the second time (he had been sent to Sing Sing for a securities deal in 1912), dapper Jules W. Arndt Stein tried the advertising business in Manhattan, was divorced, remarried, ended up in a Los Angeles air-conditioning firm. Last week he filed suit against Producer Zanuck, Actor Power, et aL, seeking an injunction against further showings of Rose of Washington Square, $250,000 damages. Mr. Arndt Stein huffed .hat Actor Power portrayed him not only as a coward, weakling and swindler...