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...Communications Commission Chairman Frank Ramsay McNinch thinks purge is a nasty word, last week he persuaded his commission to oust three more FCC staff men, bringing his purge score to seven. By abolishing FCC's examining division, incorporating the examiners in the legal division under McNinch's right-hand man. General Counsel William James Dempsey, FCC sidestepped civil service statutes and fired Chief Examiner Davis G. Arnold, Examiner Melvin H. Dalberg. Similar action ousted Publicity Man G. Franklin Wisner. But FCC will not be without a pressagent. Marion Livingston Ramsay was borrowed for 90 days from the Rural...
...Continental's longtime head, handsome, suave, bright-eyed Earle Bailie. Born in Milwaukee, this 48-year-old banker began as a lawyer, in 1919 joined J. & W. Seligman & Co., became a partner in four year. He enjoyed a brief moment of national prominence in 1934 as right-hand man to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., was forced out by Senatorial objections to his Wall Street background...
...twelve, was a charter member of the United Mine Workers, began his career as a U. M. W. executive alongside William Green. When Percy Tetlow was fighting in the Argonne. his job was filled by none other than John L. Lewis. Now Miner Tetlow is Miner Lewis' right-hand man on the Coal Commission. Miner Tetlow's own right arm must do the work of two-.he lost his left in an auto accident...
...reads the present inscription, now set between two murals by John Singer Sargent. It is to be split into two couplets, the upper one being placed under the right-hand mural, and the lower under the left-hand one. The lines were composed jointly by Sargent and President Lowell...
...usual mad, noisy, illiterate, shyster antics of the movie industry. Maddest, noisiest, worst illiterate, biggest shyster is a movie magnate (Robert H. Harris) who looks as sinister as a Kewpie doll, acts as honorably as a double-crossing spy, throws telephones across the stage, never lets his right-hand man know what his left-hand man is doing, hires, fires, wheedles, fondles, gives his office the dignity of a bargain sale...