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...mayor of Seattle wanted to know whether he had to go home to make an application for a project Mr. Hopkins told him that, for all he cared, the mayor could meet the state director in front of the Lincoln Memorial. To a question from the mayor of Savannah about seashore erosion he answered: "You will have to ask us officially, and then somebody who knows more about it than I do will write a letter for me to sign...
...pound less than the Government was paying; that the Postmaster General forced him to sell out to American Airways-which he did at a $500,000 profit. ¶Hainer Hinshaw, onetime American Airways lobbyist, said Postmaster Brown had induced his company to agree not to bid on the proposed Savannah-Atlanta-Memphis-Tulsa route, since the Postoffice wanted to "take care of" Robertson Air Lines, which had been crudely frozen out of a St. Louis-New Orleans contract by one of the American Airways extensions. ¶Daniel Miller Sheaffer, executive of Pennsylvania Railroad and T. A. T., had an uncomfortable...
Died. Peter Wiltberger Meldrim. 85, presiding judge of Georgia's Eastern Judicial Circuit, onetime (1914) president of the American Bar Association, onetime (1897-99) mayor of Savannah; in Savannah. After the Civil War in which he, 16, sniped at Sherman's troops on their way to the sea, he studied and practiced law, became a power in Georgia politics...
Taking their name from the element attacked in the President's Savannah speech, the '"Tories"' organized in Manhattan "to raise the drooping head of the American eagle on the dollar bill, to foster a 'back-to-the-college' movement for our statesmen...
...Archibald Bulloch (1729-77) of Savannah, famed Georgia Revolutionist, was a maternal ancestor of Theodore Roosevelt, hence also of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt and of Franklin Roosevelt's children. *Never a professional, Actor Smith won gold and silver medals for oratory while in St. James' Parish School, appeared in most of the parish dramatic club's plays. His favorite part: Congressman Bardwell Slote in The Almighty Dollar...