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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deduct from it his advances and turn over the balance to Stevens. Thirty-eight days after making the loan Morgan received the Government's payment for 2,500 rifled Hall carbines at $22 apiece. He repaid himself the $20,000 with interest, commission, costs of rifling, packing, insurance, etc., and after that day he never had any further interest in the sale of the carbines directly or indirectly. Stevens went to Morris Ketchum and borrowed a considerable sum of money from him. When Ketchum's loan was not repaid he pressed his claim for it and brought suit...
...Manager Pojello (still a wrestler himself at 42) wisely avoided the more hippodromic Manhattan wrestling syndicates (Jack Pfeffer's "Bums," etc.), picked up with Boston's Paul Bowser. Bowser, now the Angel's matchmaker, recognizes one Steve Casey as U. S. champion, claiming for this crown an unbroken line of descent all the way back to Frank Gotch, who retired as champion in 1913. Other current "recognized" U. S. champions: Veteran Jim Londos (N. Y., Pa., & Calif.) ; Bronko Nagurski and/or Bobby Bruns (Midwest); Everett Marshall (Rocky Mts.). None of these prize beeves has yet offered the Angel...
...Coordinating body of church "social action" groups - Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, Congregational, etc...
Died. Edwin Carewe, 56, oldtime cinema director (Ramona, Resurrection, etc.) ; of heart disease; in Hollywood...
Rare is the small stockholder who bothers to go to annual stockholders' meetings or even answer proxy requests. So complacent are the stockholders of General Mills Co. ("Gold Medal Flour," "Wheaties," etc.), who have been paid $6 preferred and $3 common dividends-all earned-every year since 1929, that last summer moose-tall, chipmunk-cheeked Chairman James F. Bell arrived speech in hand at his annual meeting, to find 6,716 common stockholders absent,three present...