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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recalled that "Huey Long by threats and terrorism had blocked efforts to refinance after the bank troubles this spring, when the States was caught in the Canal Bank & Trust Co. [TIME, April 3]." He was happy to say that the Times-Picayune, "the South's oldest and richest newspaper" and no friend to Huey Long, would retain the States' senior staff members, including Editor J. Walker Ross who has served the paper for 48 years. The Times-Picayune is a morning paper. The States continues in the evening field, merging its Sunday edition with that of its purchaser...
...recalled that "Huey Long by threats and terrorism had blocked efforts to refinance after the bank troubles this spring, when the States was caught in the Canal Bank & Trust Co. [TIME, April 3]." He was happy to say that the Times-Picayune, "the South's oldest and richest newspaper" and no friend to Huey Long, would retain the States' senior staff members, including Editor J. Walker Ross who has served the paper for 48 years. The Times-Picayune is a morning paper. The States continues in the evening field, merging its Sunday edition with that of its purchaser...
...behind a legislative record that made fresh fodder for the old argument: Should State governments be abolished as political anachronisms and their administrative authority divided up among fen regional districts, as recommended by Ohio State University's Professor Peter H. Odegard, or turned over to their largest and richest cities, as favored by University of Chicago's Professor Simeon Eldridge Leland...
...Press picked up what news it could of the strangely behaving U. S. Delegates. Best tidbit of last week was the Delegates' failure to realize that invitations to dine with the "Fishmongers' Company'' meant a chance to banquet with one of London's richest guilds off sumptuous gold plates. Nearly half the Delegates invited threw away their Fishmongers' invitations, unaware that the banquet was being given by special request of His Majesty's Government. The Press also twitted two breezy Southern Delegates, Texas ice & utilities Tycoon Ralph W. Morrison and Tennessee...
After breakfasting sumptuously at the home (just outside Toronto) of John Paris Bickell, "richest bachelor in Canada," the party set out in two General Airways' planes flying due north over Ontario's lake country to Porcupine gold camp. Their first goal was famed Mclntyre-Porcupine mine, Mr. Bickell's prize performer (which produced $5,425,000 of gold last year). There they met Sandy Mclntyre, onetime glass-molder, later foreman of a railroad construction gang, who discovered the mine and now lives on a pension (doled out in small amounts so that he will not disappear...