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...ghosts. The great Quemahoning Dam above the city is eleven times as big as the one that let go in 1889 and if terrorists were abroad, where might they not strike next? Johnstown's loud Mayor Daniel J. Shields sent President Roosevelt an I-told-you-so telegram, called before him the district's two chief Labor leaders and warned them to get out of town or stay "at their own risk." The most determined of the two, James Mark of the United Mine Workers, replied by calling 40,000 miners to march on Johnstown for an Independence...
Saturday's newspapers brought John Lewis a new kind of editorial to read. It appeared in the New York World-Telegram, up to now fairly friendly. Still friendly, the bellwether of Publisher Roy Howard's nationwide flock was not critical. It said: "Until recently we had thought John L. Lewis plenty smart when it came to sensing public sentiment." But its faith had been shaken, the World-Telegram continued, by two incidents: 1) John Lewis' announcement last fortnight of a C.I.O. drive to organize Government employes at a time when "Lewis-haters were scaring their children with...
...York. Their response was to work out with the delighted FCC a new scale of night rates embodying the principle of graduated volume discounts which Western Union's dour Vice President John Calvin Willever (TIME, Nov. 2) has long yearned to extend to every type of telegram. Effective June i, the ten-word night message and 50-word night letter were abolished, a new, 25-word minimum night message introduced which could be sent anywhere in the U. S. for a maximum...
...reception in the rooms generally reserved for the National Academy of Design. Even the Virgin Islands and American Samoa were represented among some 526 pictures and statues. Most States held local exhibition and preliminary contests to choose the pictures to be sent. All critics were respectful, and the World-Telegram's Emil Genauer was able to write...
...much of a mystery as the scare last April were last week's gold-cut rumors. According to the New York World-Telegram the report originated inadvertently with a big Manhattan bank, which had bought $5,000,000 in gold to resell at a profit to the Treasury. Feeling that the price of sterling was high, the bank borrowed instead of buying the exchange with which to pay for the London gold. Meanwhile sterling went up, not down, and having been caught short, the bank hastily covered by dumping the gold. The fact that a U. S. bank...