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Economists by nature are the worrying type. Malcolm L. Merriam of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce has the job worrying about one of the most vexatious of economic problems -installment selling. If his department is not the nation's greatest authority on installment selling, it has one of the nation's greatest collections of installment selling statistics. Last week the National Retail Dry Goods Association had a convention in the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan. About 5,000 merchants listened without excitement while speakers told them that Federal taxation was oppressive, that labor unions were...
Minus their three outstanding stars of 1937, sprinter Gene Gisburne, diver Bob Helme, and distance man Raoul Delvalle, Coach Merriam's Pennsylvania swimmers are a distinctly questionable outfit. Victorious by 58-17 and 58-23 over Villanova and Lehigh respectively in meets which proved nothing, the Red and Blue is better balanced than in the past, but lacks outstanding...
...Jameson (A); Berizzi, Walker, Waldron (H); 100-yard backstroke: Fisher, Dorr (A); Cummin, Tregaskis, Kennedy (H); 220-yard free-style: Dillingham, Hewitt (A); Coleman, Murphy (H); Medley, 150-yard: Fisher, Jameson, Howe (A); Cummin, Berizzi, Benedict (H); Relay: Howe, Fallon, Wyman, Scott (A); Barker, Griffin, Kendall, Hutter (H); Dive: Merriam (A) and Dana for (A) Greenhood, Forbush...
...boots and plumed helmets, Elaine Walker, President of Culver City's chamber of commerce, paraded down Hollywood Boulevard to Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Stepping between crowd-banks to the theatre entrance, he was greeted by Hollywood's Olesen and California's burbling Governor Frank F. Merriam, ensconced behind a large box of fresh-mixed concrete. Announcing that Culver City no longer coveted her neighbor's name, President Walker with a splendid gesture passed over to the Hollywood camp a box inscribed, "Culver City presents to Hollywood the Culver City-made Selznick International Picture, The Prisoner...
...often politics not Law decides whether a Governor extradites a man wanted for trial in another State. Last week Law asserted its rights in two distant States. In California, Attorney General Ulysses Sigel Webb ruled Governor Frank F. Merriam had no option, must surrender La Verne Moore, fabled super-golfing mystery man known for seven years as John Montague, to New York State to stand trial for alleged participation in a roadhouse robbery in 1930. This despite appeals for Montague by Bing Crosby, Guy Kibbee, George Von Elm, et al. Promptly John Montague's attorneys flew their appeals East...