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...real estate investment with New York senate leader Joe Bruno, who was indicted on Jan. 23 on charges that he defrauded the public while in office. Gillibrand's maternal grandmother Polly Noonan founded the Albany Democratic Women's Club and was a close confidante of longtime Albany mayor Erastus Corning...
...conclusion," he says, "that our job should be a reporting job." The first full job of coverage was on a report by the State Investigation Commission condemning the city's purchasing practices. Then, in 1961, Reform Candidate Rev. Robert K. Hudnut ran for mayor against the machine-picked Erastus Corning II. The papers duly reported Hudnut's charges against the machine: that it had been controlling votes through tax assessments; that it had been making huge profits in settling tax-delinquency cases. Corning won anyway, but the machine was furious with the papers. The city canceled all legal...
...Named for Swiss Theologian Thomas Lüber (1524-83), known also as Erastus, who attacked the theocratic views of Calvinism...
...heads and the flaring banners on the wall. Unlike Trumbull's sparing canvas, the fantastic Historical Monument to the American Republic stretches out to an immense 9 by 13 feet. It was painted 100 years after the birth of the nation by a Massachusetts primitive named Erastus Salisbury Field "to get up a brief history of our country in a monumental form." The monumental form seems to combine Babel and Troy with intimations of modern Manhattan-its skyscraping towers connected at the top by railroad bridges. The history, told in statues and bas-reliefs, ranges from the rescue...
...Chicago, Chairman Robert Erastus Wilson of Standard Oil of Indiana expressed his own optimism in the future as his company reached the $2 billion mark in assets. Said Wilson: "It took us 57 years to reach $1 billion in assets, and just seven more years to reach $2 billion." Wilson, already after the third billion, announced that in the next two years Indiana Standard will spend $500 million on expansion and modernization. The oil industry as a whole, he thought, can look forward to an increase in demand this year "almost as large as that...