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Then up spoke Hugh R. Pomeroy, director of Virginia's State Planning Board: "I have examined slum areas from coast to coast and the slums of Philadelphia are probably the worst in the nation. . . . The heart of the city is decaying and the decay is spreading. [It can't be stopped] by buying streamlined garbage trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia Pained | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

Married. Lillias Pomeroy Dulles, 25, daughter of John Foster Dulles, international finance expert and senior partner in Manhattan's potent law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell; and Robert Hinshaw, 25, Princeton-schooled advertising man; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 16, 1940 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...Promptly Michigan's Representative Roy Orchard Woodruff (Republican) lashed out in Congress at "this sort of propaganda played up at a time like this for purposes of political demagoguery." To Representative Woodruff SECommissioner Sumner Pike, retired oilman and onetime vice president of Wall Street's Case. Pomeroy & Co., explained: "In some way unknown to the commission, a copy of the report or the summary was obtained by a newspaper correspondent. . . . When the report had reached its final stages it was supervised by me. As I am a Republican, that ought to set at rest any notion that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Thirteen Families | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Left. By Editor-Author Ed Howe, an estate valued at $200,000; in Atchison, Kans. To Society Editor Nellie Webb of his Globe, he left $1,500. To Niece Adelaide Howe he left $50,000. To Sons Eugene Alexander and James Pomeroy he left the remainder except for $1, which went to Daughter Mateel Howe Farnham who in 1927 won a $10,000 prize for Rebellion, a novel in which she satirized her father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 18, 1937 | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...score was written by an Amherst man, the late Tod Galloway, who put a lot of Kipling to music, or that the words date from the autumn of 1909 when cadaverous Meade Minnigerode, since famed as the author of The Son of Marie Antoinette, The Magnificent Comedy, and George Pomeroy composed them for the delectation of a drinking group formed the spring before and called the Whiffenpoofs. G. Schirmer, Inc. contest that they got the rights to the song for an official Yale Song Book. Miller Music, Inc. protest that Authors Minnigerode & Pomeroy authorized them to publish the song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Whiffenpoof Contest | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

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