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...Derby Eve banquet of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels. Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler extended his thanks for the colonels' aid during last winter's great Ohio flood, announced that he would break his rule against appointing more colonels by issuing up to ten new commissions in 1938. Named new general of the order was Colonel John Jeremiah Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads...
Theodore Frothingham, 3rd '40; Benjamin C. Gifford '39; J. Gordon Gilkey, Jr. '39; Arthur J. Goldsmith, Jr. '40; Christian H. Haberkorn, 3rd '37; John Hoar, Jr. '40; Charles W. Hubbard, Jr. '37; Edward B. Hubbard '38; Boyd N. Jones, Jr. '40; John F. Kennedy '40; Jr. '39; Thomas D. McCall '39; Donald McDonald '39; William B. Miller...
...private life. Commissioner Moss's business was show business. He and his brother, Benjamin S. Moss, were pioneer chain cinemansion operators, he coproduced a hit called Subway Express and for a long time was a prominent Theatre Guildsman. It was only natural that Commissioner Moss should concentrate his reform zeal on Broadway. He requisitioned dress rehearsal seats to all productions so that if a show was dirty it could be cleaned up without the furor of revision after the opening. He made all casting offices take out licenses, rid the city of unscrupulous booking agents. In 1934 he requested...
...Philadelphia Public Ledger. They got their idea from Benjamin Day's New York Sun, which had been pleasing Manhattan's masses and enriching its proprietor at a penny a copy since 1833. Sledding hard in Philadelphia, Partners Simmons and Swain left it to Partner Abell to see that the Sun shone successfully on Baltimore. The story of the Sun therefore became the story of Partner Abell, of his descendants, and of their business and journalistic heirs. Last week that story was published by four able writers, all employes of the Sun, in as comprehensive a biography...
...brandished his umbrella at the mobsters, and 50 policemen who overawed the crowd with their drawn revolvers. Fifteen citizens and soldiers were killed that day. Next thing Baltimore knew, Federal guns were staring from Federal Hill, and the city was under the thumb of officious, punch-drunk General Benjamin ("Beast") Butler. A warm Southern sympathizer and States' rights man. Publisher Abell had his choice of keeping editorially mum or being deprived of his newspaper, thrown in jail. He kept mum. While even Union sympathizers were being jailed by the military in unhappy Baltimore, the Government watched the Sun like...