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Another spectacular abuse of wartime travel was reported last week by the London Daily Herald, which said that, for a lark, Colonel Glenn Myer, U.S.A.A.F. commander of a troop carrier base in England, had ferried two titled English ladies to Brussels in a U.S. transport plane. Penalties: the ladies were fined $240 apiece for violating British defense regulations; Colonel Myer was summarily recalled...
Friends. Many a West Coast citizen believed, with Dillon Myer, director of the War Relocation Authority, that the Japanese could resettle in coastal areas with little real difficulty. There were signs that most Pacific Coast citizens recognized the right of the Japanese to return and live in peace. Thousands more were warmly sympathetic toward the evacuees, indignant at the speeches against them...
Biggest deal so far this season came when J. Myer Schine acquired the swanky, 300-room Roney Plaza Hotel, 18 years old, from Papal Marquis George MacDonald. The price: $1,601,000. Terms: cash. The deal was interesting: when the famed Roney Plaza opened in 1926, J. Myer Schine was strictly nobody. In 1918 he opened his first movie theater modestly in Gloversville, N.Y. It was an old roller-skating rink which he converted with a borrowed $1,500. Last week Schine, now owner of a chain of some 150 theaters in New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland, lolled...
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...rules to put over the mailing scheme, was scheduled for induction last May. But Holzer knew his own plan so much better than his superiors that OPAdministrator Prentiss Brown got his induction stayed. Fortnight ago the crucial stage of the mailing safely past, Good Bureaucrat Holzer reported to Fort Myer, Va., was assigned to the Navy as an apprentice seaman in the Seabees. Given the Navy's usual week furlough before going on active duty, Clerk Holzer turned up at the New York OPA office, spent the week helping mail more Ration Books...