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With a stroke of his pen Philadelphia's gaunt Federal Judge George A. Welsh approved P. R. T.'s reorganization plan (under 77-B), merged it with its 15 subsidiaries and 49 underliers into a single $85,000,000 corporation: Philadelphia Transportation...
...have forced him to dig up a few bouquets to toss at this year's team and "the Major," but his apparent reluctance to do so and his "scoop" discovery of Tennessee as a major league team have forced this constant reader of TIME to take up his pen and write his first letter to an editor...
Calm to the point of boredom was the ceremony of the signing. It was 12:04 p.m. when President Roosevelt, grasping an inexpensive black & tan fountain pen, affixed his signature to the joint resolution. Next minute, using another pen just like it, he signed proclamations defining combat areas (see p. 16), and banning belligerent submarines from U. S. ports. To Senator Key Pittman went one pen. To Representative Sol Bloom went another. A third-an expensive one that memento-loving Sol Bloom had bought just for the ceremony-the President decided to keep for himself. Off-stage a newsman...
...precious instrument of nature which goaded Satan to tempt Eve, and caused the death of Socrates, is with us now, hanging on a small wall of the Germanic Museum. Never before has the element of vengeance entered the realm of art and music, but in a series of pen sketches by Oberlaender, entitled "Piano's Revenge," a new vista of conjecture is opened for those who appreciate the rare combination of real humor and fine craftsmanship...
...Government bonds and cash to bail out a rumpled, disgruntled ex-candidate for President, Nicholas Dozenberg, alias George Morris, better known as Earl Browder, 48-year-old Communist leader. Indicted on a passport-fraud charge, he had already spent one night in the detention pen. Hester Huntington had met him for the first time the day before. Said she: "I did it on principle." Grateful Mr. Browder walked out of jail to await trial...