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...market price on petroleum products at the expense of the public. A Senate subcommittee is now considering a bill introduced by Senator Guy M. Gillette of Iowa to divorce oil production and sale much as the New Deal divorced banking and underwriting in 1933. Last week President J. Howard Pew of Sun Oil Co. went to Washington to protest. Denying that the present setup was monopolistic or unjust, he declared: "I resent such an indictment. There's nothing I consider more un-American and unsportsmanlike than the fixing of prices." ¶ Pressed its antimonopoly trial of vast Aluminum...
...Sunday, Dean Noe sat in a pew in the Cathedral whose pulpit he had occupied for 17 years, while a sermon criticizing such "vagaries" as his 22-day fast was preached by Rev. Royden Keith Yerkes of the University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.). That night the Dean collapsed, was taken to a hospital where Memphis specialists, who had been waiting a week for such an emergency, attempted to save his life with forced feeding...
Certainly the 1937 performance was nothing less than disgraceful. This year the number of Seniors who expect to attend their Baccalaureate should be estimated in advance. Then every pew should be reserved for families and friends and filled by tickets of admittance...
...which the Democrats were conceded a better-than-even chance. Mayor Wilson had most fun with two rich but politically unsophisticated socialites who undertook to revive Philadelphia's Republican organization-City Chairman Jay Cooke, descendant of the Civil War financier, and Vice President Joseph Newton Pew Jr.. of Sun Oil Co., who financed Wilson's last mayoralty campaign. Cried the irrepressible mayor: "I'm going to take all the oil out of Pew. There isn't anything to take out of Cooke. . . . Why, every time 'Jumping Jay' Cooke hands out a statement prepared...
...page boys, swank moppets dressed in the racing colors of the duke, behaved as lordly little scamps. One pinched another who started bawling so loudly that he had to be rushed out by an adult. After the benediction, as the Duke & Duchess of Norfolk were returning up the aisle, pew occupants were obliged to restrain another page who persisted in the notion that it would be jolly if he could manage to step on the bride's 15-ft. train of shimmering silver...