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...president, the N.A.M. picked Henry G. Riter III, 62, president of Thomas A. Edison Inc., of West Orange, N.J; A graduate of Philadelphia's Germantown Academy, Riter joined Wall Street's Dillon, Read & Co. in 1919, became a member of the firm in 1927, and left during the Depression to start Riter & Co. While doing some financial work for Edison, he became interested in expanding the company, which was formed to produce the famed inventor's products. In 1946 he persuaded former New Jersey Governor Charles Edison, son of the inventor, to offer the firm...
...seemed to predominate in contrast with their very poor showing at the dance of last Saturday night. Perhaps the fact that this dance is froe had something to do with it. Anyway, the gals seemed to enjoy the presence of G.L. Johnson, Jennings, Walther, Cross, Clark, Fielden, Pugh, Riter, Hein and many others...
...indicated in the cover design, labeled "Saint Andy of Pittsburgh." It showed a cadaverous, ansel-winged Andrew Mellon against a red sky, plucking a harp above a sordid panorama of smoking mill chimneys, squalid shacks, starved workers, silk-hatted bankers slipping money to corrupt politicians. This illustrated W'riter Liggett's leading, lengthy article: "Mr. Mellon's Pittsburgh-Symbol of Corruption." Other features: "News Behind The News," a querulous "debunking" of the fortnight's political and economic news; "Children Are Starving" by one Lillian Symes; political pin-sticking by Robert S. Allen (Washington Merry-Go-Round...