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...Washington two big stores (Hecht Co. and Woodward & Lothrop) were charged with ceiling violations. In 21 war-plant areas, 60 landlords were haled into court for violating rent ceilings. Throughout the land, OPA brought suit to enjoin 116 meat packers from "upgrading" standard cuts of meat, warned 4,000 retailers to fix their prices or else. These were not random actions but test cases carefully picked for a showdown on whether OPA is really price boss for the duration. For OPA investigations have shown that out of 12,000 groceries and butchers 40% are ceiling violators, and that...
...affectionately of the weather, digressed into politics long enough to say that State Democratic Chairman James Aloysius Farley must go. The Post's Mary Bragiotti (women's page) found him "a lovely Mayor-to us girls." The Herald Tribune's mountainous, tough-minded sports editor, Stanley Woodward, asked him what he meant by saying newsmen had no ethics. Said the Mayor: "The truth is I'm having press trouble. And I think I'm partly to blame. But a lot of things happen that get me mad. I can't seem...
...Rounders, Texas Oilman Emerson F. Woodward's up-&-coming Irish-bred colt: the $25,000 Arlington Handicap; defeating (by three and a half lengths) turfdom's leading money winner, Whirlaway, who collected a mere $4,000 in second money; before a closing-day crowd of 30,000 at Chicago's Arlington Park. (Fortnight ago Rounders placed second in the $50,000 Massachusetts Handicap, when Whirlaway upped his earnings to $454,336 to eclipse Seabiscuit as the biggest money winner in horse-racing history...
...that the post-time favorite has won the Derby only 33 times out of 67, will hitch his money to a dark horse-maybe With Regards, the rheumatic $800 nag that won the Arkansas Derby last month; or Hollywood, a big Irish-bred colt imported by Texas Cattleman Emerson Woodward last fall and quoted at odds of 100-to-1 in the Derby winter book before he won an impressive race in the mud at Kentucky's Keeneland...
Elected Friday evening to lead the Flying Club into active participation in the war program, William Woodward, Jr. '43, of Eliot House, announced that members of the Club would soon be piloting planes in the Civil Air Patrol...