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...Norman C. Norman turned up at the Electric Bond & Share stockholders' meeting, it was obvious there would be more news than just a reading of the annual report. Nothing happened until after Chairman Clarence Edward Groesbeck had given an accounting of his 1935 stewardship. Then Stockholder Herbert Claiborne Pell proposed that the corporation make no effort to influence public opinion against the Public Utility Act of 1935. Stockholder Pell, onetime (1921-26) Democratic State Chairman for New York and onetime (1919-21) U. S. Representative, argued that the more the company protested against Government interference, the more the Government...
Married. Lucile Brokaw, 20, daughter of Irving Brokaw, Manhattan socialite and ice-skater; and James Duane Pell Bishop, socialite rug company employe; in Locust Valley...
...county or up to that of a country. Actually, of course, the British genius for muddling through would easily extemporize a solution, nobody much cared what. Also it was pointed out that every election on Prince Edward Island for three decades has been a "landslide," the islanders always rushing pell mell to vote Conservative or Liberal, whichever is the opposite of the way they voted last time...
Newshawks continued to pepper him. His answers: "I've accepted the directorship very humbly. . . . I felt that it was a sort of call, almost like a call to the ministry. . . . I have been playing romantic roles-Roméo and Pelléas-for so many years that my views are naturally romantic. I look upon the Metropolitan with the same eager approach...
...mark at La Scala before he was invited home. For more than a decade he has been the No. 1 North American-born tenor. Others may sing louder. But Johnson never errs as an artist, never fails to be an attractive, credible hero. As Roméo and Pelléas he has surpassed all his contemporaries...