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...Kansas City, where a reform movement to oust Boss Thomas Joseph Pendergast from city control was defeated fortnight ago in a mayoral election accompanied by wholesale sluggings and four fatal shootings (TIME, April 9), a bullet whizzed into the dining room of lanky, white-haired City Manager Henry F. McElroy, 68. Manager McElroy, in the adjoining sun room, was uninjured. Next clay his 26-year-old Daughter Mary, for whose release he paid $30,000 when she was kidnapped last May, was summoned to the telephone. A voice barked: "We never miss the second time...
...trying to spread hate among our people." If the Dickstein investigation has its way the U. S. Capitol will be turned into a public forum in which Nazis will be pilloried day after day and timid citizens will be led to believe that Chancellor Hitler is about to oust President Roosevelt. The Administration may officially refrain from taking part, but, worse, from the diplomatic standpoint, some of the Administration's best friends are certain to be heard. Raymond Moley was this week publishing in Today a series of articles entitled "Hitlerism Invades America.'' According to Today, Nazi...
...banker who helped found Freeport in 1913. Working control of Freeport had passed to Eric P. Swenson, onetime chairman of National City Bank, by the time young, energetic Langbourne Williams graduated from the Harvard Business School. But by 1930, after his Lee, Higginson apprenticeship, Mr. Williams was ready to oust the old management which had, among other things, let Freeport's reserves approach the point of exhaustion. He became vice president and a Baltimore banker named Eugene Norton took the presidency "in trust." Last year Langbourne Williams felt he was old enough to assume official control and Banker Norton...
...proud indeed was Kentucky to receive this finest feather of diplomatic patronage. Last week, Ambassador Bingham was feeling thoroughly at home in London and thinking he was being a credit to his state and his nation when the Kentucky Legislature petitioned President Roosevelt to recall him immediately and oust him from...
...collateral his controlling stock interest in the prosperous peanut company. When the note fell due, the bank's affiliate, Trust Co. of Georgia, refused to renew, and control of the peanut company passed into its hands. One of the first things Trust Co. of Georgia did was to oust President Tom Huston...