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...flyer, returned to the steel business and worked his way up from riveter to production manager at Standard Tank Car Co. He was later hired as a salesman for Weirton Steel Co. (a National subsidiary), climbed steadily until he became Weirton's president in 1936. In 1947 Mill-sop helped incorporate Weirton, W. Va., as a city (pop. 24,000), was elected the first mayor (salary: $1 for the four-year term). Under his administration the city built a hospital and a community center, extended water and sewers, to all residents, improved streets and sidewalks, without going into debt...
...rights of citizenship. Further, persons convicted of actual treason have every right of citizenship taken away. So the Administration's new bill would not deprive of citizenship a single Communist who would not already be in jail with his rights seriously curtailed. It seems little more than a sop tossed out to appease the witch-hunters...
Unappeased by this sop, Harvey looked around for somebody who could help him fight back at brother Roy. The man he found was George J. Kolowich, head of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co., a banker who went to jail in 1933 for embezzlement, but who has since made a fortune in real estate and trucking. Last July Kolowich bought Harvey's 9% stock interest in Fruehauf, went to work to unseat Roy as president of the company...
...Americana." The repertory leans heavily (about 60%) on the choreographic work of Balanchine himself. A typical program might contain his Symphony in C, set to Bizet and danced in simple costumes against a plain blue backdrop; his showy Pas de Trois (music from Minkus' Don Quixote) as a sop to oldtimers who like to watch three top soloists show off their grace and strength; his grotesque fantasy of insect life, Metamorphoses (music by Hindemith). and perhaps one of popular Choreographer Jerome Robbins' impudent romps such as Pied Piper (music by Copland...
...Polish Communist plane, to see for themselves the Oder-Neisse Line, which separates Poland and East Germany. Their visit, of course, called attention to the fact that Germans of all non-Communist parties hope to regain the territory taken from them at Potsdam and given to Poland (as a sop for Poland's own losses to Russia...