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...with 38. His trip was a cost-cutting spree. Hiring one of the largest U. S. investment bankers, hard-working First Boston Corp., he pared the usual two or more point commission to if points, a spread nearly as small as that secured by investor-popular American Telephone & Telegraph securities. He kept his own legal fees at rock bottom, watched those of his underwriters. To cut printing bills, he ordered only 47,500 copies of the 70-page prospectus, an almost skimpy number for selling 108,000 $1,000 bonds. It is rumored he even asked staid, profit-conscious American...
Your statement [TIME, Sept. 23] that Mr. G. E. R. Gedye "lost his job with the London Telegraph for criticizing Neville Chamberlain in his book, Fallen Bastions," would, I think, be less open to misconstruction if you could add as a footnote the following quotation from a letter from Mr. Arthur E. Watson, managing editor of the Daily Telegraph, which was published in the New Statesman on April...
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...years ago British Newsman George Eric Rowe Gedye had to leave his New York Times headquarters in Vienna when the Gestapo kicked him out of Austria. The next year he lost his job with the London Telegraph for criticizing Neville Chamberlain in his book, Fallen Bastions. Month later the Gestapo chased him out of Prague. This summer he lost another assignment. Russia's new, ironclad press censorship had made transmission of news no longer practicable, forced him to close down the New York Times's 18-year-old Moscow bureau. There are now no U. S. newspaper bureaus...
...across Italy from Yugoslavia to Switzerland, and at Lugano station Carol was cheered by Swiss as he alighted smiling and took Magda to a swank hotel overlooking the lake. They dined sumptuously with the Rumanian Minister to Switzerland, sitting at table until after 10 p.m., applied to Vichy by telegraph for permission to settle on the French Riviera. The Vichy Government hemmed & hawed. The Axis might not like...