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Last week Massey-Harris got a rejuvenating shot in the arm. The man who administered it was Toronto's Edward Plunkett Taylor, 46, a round-faced, blue-eyed hustler who is Canada's No. 1 industrialist. Taylor went into Massey-Harris five years ago as a director. By last week he and his associates had bought up 35% of Massey-Harris common stock-and control. First thing that Taylor did was reorganize the board of directors, bringing in such energetic new members as Quebec's shipping magnate Joseph Simard. Said Eddie Taylor: "We plan to increase [production...
...Laude: David Plunkett French, Richard James Grigg, Jr., Frederick Draper Holton, Donald Walker Lanning, Norman Robert Silberg, Vladmir Irakly Toumanoff, and John Warren Vannorsdall...
Poet-Dramatist Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, English professor at Athens University since 1940, turned up safe & sound in Dublin, kept mum about how he got away from Nazi-occupied Greece...
...Fair Labor Standards Act. But Mr. Eichenlaub replied that the hospital was short of funds. Climax of the strike came when he tried to obtain an injunction against picketing. The municipal judge to whom the case was referred lay sick in bed in the struck hospital. Judge Frank Plunkett Patterson substituted for him, issued an order which Pittsburgh papers called "the most drastic picketing injunction of modern times...
Last week the Plunkett, Gilmer and Paul Jones asked identity and destination of two more vessels off Tampico, this time Latin-American merchantmen: the Mexican tanker Cerro Azul, inbound in ballast on a coastwise trip, and the Honduran freighter Ceiba out of New Orleans. In a story from Tampico smelling rankly of Nazi propaganda it was reported that the ships were boarded by U. S. sailors, their captains questioned, their papers checked, their cargo registries examined...