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...South. When former Governor James M. Cox of Ohio bought the Atlanta Journal last year (TIME, Dec. 25), he offered Editor Hall $10,000 a year-fabulous salary for a Southern editor-and a $25,000 stock interest to leave the Advertiser, move to Atlanta. Publisher Hudson, no piker, heard of the offer, promptly met it, making 52-year-old Grover Hall probably the best-paid editor in the South...
Only six weeks away last week was a new Congress, and Martin Dies, never a piker, was ready to ask this time for a $1,000,000 appropriation. To earn his million, Dies produced a bigger show than ever. From Los Angeles to Chicago his agents brought Heinrich Peter Fassbender, alias Harry Smith, 23, a dark, smiling youth who claimed to have worked as a Gestapo agent for five years in Belgium, Spain and the U. S. Young Alien Fassbender, said Dies, was "sensational" in secret hearings...
...three, have a unique business technique. The three-button-natural-shoulder-loose-fitting long coats which they produce are, in their eyes, works of art, and they should be sold as such. The ordinary good tailor won't sell a suit unless it fits well; he's a piker compared with the Mount A. Street trio. They won't sell a suit unless it fits the personality of the buyer. Every piece of clothing that goes out of the little brick shops is designed to fill a definite function in the wordrobe of its owner...
...reporters who cover San Francisco's City Hall consider Philadelphia's Councilman Charles Pommer a piker [TIME...
...sheets by picking the Derby one, two, three, and cinching it with pictures on the front page! Of course there might have been some question about what time of day to start that "clockwise" business, but I figure a guy could stay in coffee and cakes with nothing but piker bets to "show" as long as TIME was picking them...