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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suspension was to run at least until the end of the '48-'49 school term, with a substitute teacher taking Bradley's classes. Bradley has not started his prison sentence, and so his suspension stars. He slopped receiving salary on August 21, and he will not be paid again until the suspension is lifted...
...major change that the State made when it converted the old El into the MTA in 1947, was to buy up the old corporation's stock. Since 1918, the dividends on this stock had been paid on the gross profits before any of the surplus had been plowed back into improvements for the transit system; thus, the stock was for private investors highly profitable and secure. Inasmuch as a politically appointed board of trustees ran the company, these stocks became during the Curley regime a form of party patronge. So the State elimination of these dividends cut out a large...
...printer to hand set one. He brightened Page One with newsy photographs and headlines (one big March story: JOHN C. HOLLAND LAID TO REST). In his English car, Editor Sancton made the rounds of his borderline beat, hunting for stories to bolster the time-honored diet of "personals." Soon, paid circulation hit the 1,000 mark. Advertisers sought space in the livelier Journal. This week, for the first time, the Journal will publish a ten-page issue...
Sanctons found several hundred dollars in checks, money orders and cash. Mary, who moved in as circulation manager, found only 145 paid-up subscriptions; others were in arrears as far back as 1896. (Wrote one delinquent: "I'd been pleading with old John for half a century to stop sending me his paper...
...time he sold his stock in 1947 after 30 years; of cancer; in St. Louis. Breadon (and onetime associate Branch Rickey) built up the far-flung Cardinal chain system (at one time they owned 16 farm teams, had working agreements with twelve others), which paid off handsomely: Breadon's high-flying Cardinals won nine National League pennants, six World Series, earned more than $8,000,000. Breadon, who said that he had never seen a funeral and did not want one for himself, requested that he be cremated and his ashes scattered in the Mississippi River...