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...verse: Back of the Loaf is the snowy Flour, back of the Flour the Mill. Back of the Mill the Wheat and the Shower, the Sun and the Father's will. The boys gobbled and talked, and a master noted that two places were vacant. Down a back stair of West Dormitory and out onto the campus stole a tall gangling boy and a short, plump-cheeked boy-Henry Wetter Jr., 15, son of a Memphis, Tenn. stove manufacturer, and Phelps Newberry Jr., 15, son of a Detroit banker, grandson of onetime Senator and Secretary of the Navy Truman...
Father Coughlin's bitterest vitriol was reserved for Edward Douglas Stair, former president of Detroit Bankers Co., one of the two holding companies-"Detroit Looters' Co." to Father Coughlin. Also publisher of the Free Press, Mr. Stair directs a running editorial barrage against Father Coughlin. "Insull was a piker to E. D. Stair," yelled the priest of the Shrine of the Little Flower, who in October will resume his Sunday broadcasts over 27 stations, and who plans to expand his "Children's Hour" to seven stations...
Father Coughlin hurled charge after charge of corruption, deceit and deliberate falsifying of books at the officials of the defunct banks. Furthermore, he fumed, it was doubtful if three of them would escape Federal indictment-Banker-Publisher Stair, former Chairman Wilson W. Mills of First National ("a broken-down lawyer who swapped his profession for the fleshpots of Egypt") and Peter J. Monaghan, a director of Detroit Bankers and its attorney. Special U. S. Assistant Attorney General Pratt, who is also probing the Detroit situation, slyly observed: "Father Coughlin must know more about it than...
Sued for Divorce. Stanley ("Stair") Laurel, 38, of the Laurel & Hardy cinema team; by Lois N. Laurel, 32, Grounds: that her husband no longer loved her, wanted a divorce...
...house came with singular if not sinister timeliness. He immediately charged that it was an attempt at intimidation, a further persecution of him by his enemies. Having leaped into the thick of Detroit's banking fracas (TIME, April 3), Father Coughlin had just publicly aspersed E. D. Stair, publisher of the Detroit Free Press and non-salaried president of the holding company for closed First National Bank. Father Coughlin had talked of "smart money," charged that insiders gutted First National before the banking holiday...