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...Bumptious also (and proud of it) were the famed San Francisco editors (from James King and Charles Webb of frontier days to the late Fremont Older) who created a Great Tradition of aggressive, independent, politically active newspapermen...
...refused, compromised by going on half-time and half-pay. Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co.'s Hugh Morrow announced he would raise an army of 30,000 Willkie campaign volunteers. Other typical Willkie enthusiasts: Wall Street Lawyer Arthur A. Ballantine, Armstrong Cork Co.'s President Henning Webb Prentis Jr., Chrysler Corp. Director Harold Elstner Talbott Jr., Southern Railway President Ernest E. Norris. In the industrial South, businessmen's private talk indicated that many an anti-New Deal Democrat would break ranks for Willkie. Lesser-known backers who typify the kind of businessman Willkie represents: Brother Herman Frederick...
...silk men shed no tears at the blockade of Italy; California growers saw a widening market for domestic wine. One product would be partly missed: cork, of which Mediterranean countries (plus Portugal) produce 100% of the world's supply. Last week Armstrong Cork's President Henning Webb Prentis Jr. was glad he had a six to nine months' stock on hand. This would not go far if his next cork supply had to come from this hemisphere, since cork trees take 40 years to mature. But Portugal and Spain, where 70% of the cork trees grow, still...
Mexico City -Reader Dorantes is right on two counts: 1) The Alcazar did not fall; the late Webb Miller witnessed the end of the siege. 2) Its ten-week defense must be acknowledged one of the most heroic in modern history...
...people he introduces are Editor Webb and his wife (Guy Kibbee and Beulah Bondi). Two others are Country Doctor Gibbs and his wife (Thomas Mitchell and Fay Bainter). Much of Our Town is just the record of how during a lifetime these people get up in the morning, live through the day, go to sleep at night...