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...Presbyterian minister, he went to Princeton (class of '04), studied law at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh. After he had hung out his shingle in Pittsburgh, he scraped up $5,000 for an oil driller's rig and took a lease on some property not five miles from home. With beginner's luck, he struck. Since then he has followed the wildcatters from western Pennsylvania to the Gulf Coast of Mexico. He made a fortune, lost most of it in the 1929 crash, returned to the law practice he had never quite abandoned...
Setting forth on this errand, he headed south with a whoosh, traveling like an over-the-road trucker trying to roll his rig home before morning. The pace wilted his helpers, but after three punishing days Dewey was still full of pep and rich with delegates...
Confident Man. From Raleigh to the rim of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Dewey rolled his rig at high speed, made 13 speeches in 13 hours, all denouncing "this incredibly stupid" Truman Administration. Political observers gave him between 41 to 50 of the three states' 63 delegates- not many more than he had before, but all solidly in hand. Commented Dewey: "It is wonderful to campaign in the sunshine...
Still lazier anglers can find an outlet for their sloth in "tip-up" or "tilt" fishing. The fisherman merely sets his rig over an ice-hole and retires to the security of a bazing fire on the shore...
Investigators thought the Follansbee deal was an audacious attempt either to rig the market in Follansbee stock or to grab control of a steel mill to sell output in the grey market (see below). This week the elusive Mr. Fahye, who had been sought for several days, walked into the Attorney General's office. He was promptly jailed on a charge of violating the ban against security trading...