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...difficulties with the U. S. customs, was finally in Manhattan, cut, ready to be put in place. But at the last moment the stone cutters' union called a strike because the marble was cut in Italy, because it did not provide sufficient work for union members. Although the contractor last week admitted that he was hogtied again, he optimistically prophesied that the Pulitzer's Lady of the Plaza would not remain disreputable another winter...
...functions like the N. A. P. A. Last week 50 members at the San Francisco convention elected Willard Northrop, New York contractor and scoutmaster, next year's president...
...chapel car is not maintained by the university, but chartered from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, which owns two for Catholic services. These are fitted with altar and rail at one end, with collapsible chairs seating 60 or 70. Nearly every year (but not this year) a wealthy Philadelphia contractor named Joseph Mack assembles about 75 friends, including several priests, hires one of the B. & O. chapel cars and rolls to the Kentucky Derby...
...letter from Savio had been read, the Duce sent out one of his secretaries, ONE ENTIRELY UNKNOWN TO THE GREAT MASS OF THE PUBLIC, who came back with the following report to the Duce: 'To Signor Pietro Savio. 72 years of age, born in Turin, ex-contractor, unable to work because of advanced age, now living at 25 Via Calabria, there has been communicated that the bread at 1.30 per kilo was bought by the Duce from the bakery of Antonio Menichini, at No. 78 Via Alessandria...
...open hearing in court. Popular in and out of the service, he had many a defender. His friends made the point that purchases by direct negotiation, while il legal, were the rule rather than the exception in government aircraft procurements because most specifications could be best met by one contractor; hinted that "Benny" Foulois was being "made the goat" by higher officers responsible for the weakness of the Air Corps. But all Washington knew it was a far cry from the report of a Congressional sub-committee and the actual removal of the Chief of Air Corps...