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...even hotter water than Amos 'n Andy's Kingfish of the Mystic Knights of the Sea was the Director General of the Loyal Order of Moose last week. Pennsylvania's Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, longtime (1921-30) Secretary of Labor, who took charge of the Moose in 1906 and boosted their membership from 247 to 600,000, was on trial in Manhattan's Federal Court charged with conspiracy to conduct an interstate lottery. In the same boat with the Moose was the Fraternal Order of Eagles, two of whose officers were also indicted two months ago (TIME...
...Telegram that these organizations were running large lotteries with small prizes. Someone, it appeared, was making an unholy profit. The alert World-Telegram turned the complaints over to Federal District Attorney Medalie for investigation. Last week the Federal Grand Jury in Manhattan indicted Pennsylvania's Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, Conrad Henry Mann, president of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, five other individuals and Western Union Telegraph Co. on charges of operating interstate lotteries. Conspiracy indictments were also returned...
Tony (Ramon Novarro), an Italian puddler with an accent who goes to New Haven on a scholarship, is a boor whose one asset is knowing how to play fine football. Everyone heartily hates him-everyone except his roommate and Rosalie (Madge Evans), the daughter of the chairman of the steel company for which Tony used to work. Even she is shocked when he suggests they spend some time at a secluded inn. But when he plays through the Harvard game all the while threatened with appendicitis, and almost dies therefrom afterward, classmates & Rosalie know at last he is a true...
Wages of Steel. The 200,000 employes of United States Steel Corp., from president down to puddler, last week heard what they had expected for some time. Another reduction of wages and salaries was ordered. In October wages were cut 10% after a 10-15% salary reduction in August, when Big Steel finally decided overhead must come down. The new cut was 15%, making a total reduction of 23.5% in the pay of 44? an hour which was considered basic in 1929. In addition most men are now working on short shifts...
...Pennsylvania went Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C. (retired), campaigning for the Republican senatorial nomination. A Dry, he was endorsed by Governor Gifford Pinchot. He made 126 speeches (preceded, he said, by 126 silent prayers). But neither speeches nor prayers availed him. Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, a Wet supported by Boss Vare's Philadelphia machine, last week won renomination by a 350,000-vote majority...