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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pennsylvania, voters of the 26th congressional district picked 41-year-old Republican Attorney John P. Saylor, a husky, doorbell-ringing Navy veteran, over the Democrats' inexperienced Mrs. Robert L. Coffey Sr. (TIME, Sept. 12). Campaigning on the congressional and war records of her son, who was killed in a jet fighter plane five months ago, Candidate Coffey was barely able to hold her own among the miners and factory workers of heavily industrial Cambria County. Hustling Republican Saylor picked up enough support elsewhere in the traditionally Republican 26th to pile up an 8,500 vote majority...
...Lord Chief Justice and Viceroy of India. Before he became Ambassador Lord Reading had served his country well in the U.S. The story goes that he asked the House of Morgan for a billion dollars in war credits. "I'll give you half that," said J. P. Morgan. Reading agreed. Half a billion was what he had been instructed to ask for. ¶ Sir Ronald Lindsay (1930-39). Six ft. 3 in. tall, he resembled a contented moose. When he held a huge garden party for his visiting King in 1939, he coolly consoled those he could not invite...
...other news of A. & P., see BUSINESS. f He was once a vice president (his late parents were the heads) of Angostura-Wuppermann Corp., U.S. sales agents for Angostura Bitters...
Marriage Revealed. George Huntington Hartford II, 38, A. & P.* chain store heir (and grandson of the founder); and Marjorie Sue Steele, 19, onetime nightclub cigarette girl; he for the second time; on Sept. 10; in Gardnerville...
Dean George P. Berry announced today the promotion of four members of the Faculty of Medicine and changes of title for two others...