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...Julius Renter's monopoly, fattening on low cable rates, brought him power, fortune, a baronetcy from his native Germany. His son's suicide in 1915 ended the dynasty and brought Reuters up against a crisis. While it wobbled, shrewd, sparrowlike Roderick Jones, a Reuter man from South Africa, stepped in and bought up the shares. As Britain's propaganda minister in World War I, he won a knighthood, saw that his agency toed the empire line...
...Also in Titoland for the combined U.S. and British press was Renter's John Talbot. In addition, the Army's Yank published its first dispatches from Sergeant Correspondent Walter Bernstein, who had been in Yugoslavia for several weeks, shared his colleagues' enthusiasm for the Partisans...
...Model Renter Ellerbe Wood's clients will be shown an "American Couture Exhibit" late this month. Designed by still-to-be-announced dressmakers, her line has had important cooperation from textile manufacturers...
Last week, Jersey Homesteads' dead cooperative economy was buried. Rented for five years was Jersey Homesteads' factory. The renter: Manhattan's Kartiganer & Co., manufacturers of women's hats. Hopeful was many a member of Jersey Homesteads' 125 remaining families that private enterprise might provide jobs where their cooperative had failed...
...years they have been organized in a self-helping Unemployed Citizens League of high political potency. Municipally-owned public utilities furnish free light and water to thousands. Lately a mortgage company fixed up a fine home in one of the city's best residential districts. Before a prospective renter could move in, several unemployed families had taken squatters' possession of the house. Hundreds of such squatters are scattered through Seattle apartments and houses. Court sympathies are with the cashless tenant, against the landlord who wants to evict or foreclose...