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Gulick and Mr. Young plead for a better deal for New York's pupils and taxpayers...
...that he is, finds himself way over his head without a singing voice. The love interest is carried adequately, but no more than that, by Jean Madden and Richard Kollmar; the script gives them nothing to do, and Mr. Kollmar faces tremendous odds when he is called upon to plead the ancient American axiom that men are not true men unless they think for themselves...
...Bronx County Courthouse one morning last week Supreme Court Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo heard an elderly couple plead for the setting aside of the three-day notice required for marriage in New York. Granting the plea and satisfied that the pleaders were not syphilitic -another legal requirement-Judge Cotillo married them. The couple: Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, 59, publisher of New York's tabloid Daily News, and Mary King, fiftyish, women's editor of the News and fiction editor of the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate...
...favorite thesis of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace is that freight rates should rise in good times, fall in bad. Under the new AAA set up by Congress five months ago, he was authorized to create a division of transportation in the Department of Agriculture with power to plead before the ICC. Last week Secretary Wallace started the ball rolling by putting Dr. Ralph...
...another way-by demanding uniform jobber contracts and permitting jobbers only a carefully defined profit. Last week, considering the amount of time and money they had already spent and might still have to spend, 14 of the 22 accused oil companies and eleven of their executives* decided to plead nolo contender e. That meant they agreed to pay maximum fines and court costs amounting to $400,000-which, considering the cost of the previous trial, was probably a shrewd economy. Said Attorney General Homer Cummings: "The offer may be regarded as a complete capitulation...