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Together they formed a trusteeship for their newborn enterprise, christened it the All-American Girls Softball League. To run its affairs, Wrigley hired the Cubs' former assistant general manager, curly-haired, canny Ken Sells. To round up talent, he released Jimmy Hamilton from his job as Cub scout. The design of a suit able uniform he put into the capable hands of famed Poster Artist Otis Shepard, who is responsible for famed Wrigley pixies, car cards, and glamorizing of Catalina Island...
...heard through the artificial silence of strict censorship. When it would come, no man knew for certain. But when it did come, three centuries of frustration, dreams, mysticism, misery, disease, corruption, and heat-rotten inefficiency would spew forth. Neither the sanctimonious belief of the Raj in its own exalted trusteeship, nor Gandhi's equally sanctimonious conviction of his own purity was powerful enough to prevent it. The immediate danger was that the internal explosion would coincide with the advance of Japanese armies at the northeastern frontier and sea raids across the Bay of Bengal...
...things which the world will see at the end of World War II is a new face on the U.S. automobile industry. This fact was double-checked last week when a Federal judge ended the year-old trusteeship of mercurial Hupp Motor Car Corp. Hupp has paid all delinquent and current taxes, has cutaits RFC loan 30% to $550,000, will pay all creditors $1 on the $1. Even common shareholders will not be wiped out. They can swap 100 old shares...
...tact, they do not obscure the facts of who is in control. The banking patronage, for example, is split several ways: some to Manhattan's Chase, Chemical and City Banks, some to Trust Co. of Chicago, but the cream to Chicago's Continental Illinois, which gets the trusteeship for the first-mortgage bonds. Chairman of Continental Illinois is Jesse Jones's appointee Walter Joseph Cummings...
...trusteeship of CORP. Judge Leibell appointed Economist Willard Thorp and Pennsylvania Utility Commissioner Denis Driscoll (TIME, March 11), charged them with administering the system. To the trusteeship of Co. he appointed Trial Lawyer Walter Pollak, competent to sue and retrieve assets. Since SEC had veto power over these appointments, many a utility fan naturally assumed that they were an SEC slate...