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Smart little Harry Ferguson, builder and distributor of the Ford lightweight tractor (TIME, July 3, 1939), likes to think of his machines in terms of social progress. Last summer he visited England and his native Ireland. This week Inventor Ferguson put forth a new idea to help win the war for Britain...
...Pierce & Co., 40 Wall Street, which is probably the largest brokerage house in the U. S." Ralph B. Strassburger, of Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania was listed by Transocean as the only person taking two subscriptions. Mr. Strassburger, owner of the Norristown, Pa. Times Herald, later appeared in the report as distributor of the First German White Paper, intended to portray Ambassador William C. Bullitt as a warmonger. The Dies Committee told that Publisher Strassburger backed it and distributed 17,000 copies at a cost of $4,250, because of his "personal dislike" for Ambassador Bullitt...
...Little Flower, acting in his capacity as magistrate, signed a warrant for the arrest of Julius Stolz, president of Interborough News Co., distributors of Man to Man. Then he bustled to a police station, jumped up behind the lieutenant's desk, heard the complaint (offering for sale an "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, indecent or disgusting book or magazine"), released Distributor Stolz in $5,000 bail...
Last week, in the Mayor's City Hall office, Crusader LaGuardia again sat in judgment as a magistrate, heard Distributor Stolz's case, decided to hold him for trial. (Penalty if convicted: up to a year in jail, $1,000 fine, or both...
...publishing a dozen indecent magazines which he distributed at a rate of 50,000 copies a month, through five shops in New York and Jersey City, King Newman was out of town, reportedly celebrating the Jewish New Year. This week he turned up, was held for trial along with Distributor Stolz...