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June: Premier Laval showed his tough Auvergnat mettle by holding up the Hoover One-Year Moratorium singlehanded, hurling his famed defy?"Presi-dent Hoover can entrench himself behind his Congress and I can entrench myself behind the Chamber"?and hanging on doggedly until the Moratorium was modified into a form acceptable to France...
...revision in the railroad map was forecast when Great Western bought a 2OC/C interest in Kansas City Southern, thereby forming the nucleus of what could be welded into a new Chicago-Gulf route (TIME. Oct. 26). Although the deal came as a surprise, nobody thought it inconsistent with Presi dent Joyce's nature. He is aggressive from head to foot, fist to jaw. Chicago-born ("back of the yards") 52 years ago, he began work when he left grammar school, pushing a wheelbarrow in a brickyard. He rose until he was president of the Mellon-controlled Standard Steel...
Daniel Carson Goodman, 48, M.D., has been a theatrical producer, cinema executive, author, businessman (he is vice presi- dent of Celotex Co., of Southern Sugar Co.), one of the late Cinemactress Alma Rubens' husbands. He has also written: Hagar Revilly, Because of Women, Battle of the Sexes...
...busi ness: altars, communion railings, statuary, all other marble church accessories. Among its clients were the Vatican, St. Patrick's in New York, St. Paul's Cathedral, St. Paul, Minn., St. Louis Cathedral, St. Louis, Mo. But last week McBride's went into receivership. Explained Presi dent Paul Henry McBride: "People are putting 25 cents into the plate instead...
Suing for Divorce. Alicia Patterson Simpson, daughter of President Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News (tabloid) and Liberty, vice-presi-dent of the Chicago Tribune; from James Simpson Jr., son of President Simpson of Marshall Field & Co. (Chicago department store); in Chicago...