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...winner of the 1954 race for the No. 1 spot in the auto industry was Chevrolet. So said R. L. Polk & Co., the industry statistician, last week. In 1954 automobile registrations, Chevrolet led Ford 1,417,453 cars...
Down through the years, numerous American presidents of both parties have followed the Hamiltonian tradition of upholding the right of the Executive to use American forces in military operations, even without a Congressional declaration of war. United States ships fought the Barbary pirates informally for years. In 1875 President Polk precipitated a war with Mexico by sending American troops onto disputed soil between Mexico and the Republic of Texas. Once Polk created this "antecedent state of things," in Hamilton's phrase, Congress had no choice but to make a formal declaration of war. Abraham Lincoln, as a first-term Congressman...
...Once Pegasus gets going," Chairman Rose Polk '57 said last night, "We feel sure it will pay for itself. Publishing the first issue isn't too easy, though...
Died. Don Hollenbeck, 49, scholarly-voiced CBS radio and TV news commentator (Sunday News Special) ; by his own hand (gas); in Manhattan. Old Newsman Hollenbeck (the Omaha Bee-News, A.P.), was a World War II correspondent for NBC, won a special Polk memorial award for distinguished reporting as a commentator on CBS Views the News (1947-50), once got suspended for a month by ABC for remarking after a commercial (for Marlin Blades) : "The atrocity you have just heard is not a part of this program...
...senior partner of ihe 104-year-old Wall Street firm of Davis Polk Wardwell Sunderland & Kiendl (95 lawyers). John W. Davis represents A.T.&T., Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, International Paper Co., et al. He did not need another client, and he already owned a tea service. Davis took the segregation case partly because an old friend, South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes, asked him to, partly as a matter of constitutional (states' rights) and social conviction ("Race is a fact, like sex"). Some of his other friends were sorry to hear...