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...called The Kingmakers. They include such anti-New Dealers as Chicago's Phil Collins, Michigan's Mark McKee, Boston's William Doyle. Long before the greying, balding boys of the Legion assemble for their yearly carnival, The Kingmakers settle policy, pick a National Commander to explain and defend their policy. Last week in Los Angeles, where 130,000 Legionnaires went to drink and frolic this year, The Kingmakers worked with extraordinary dispatch, got their work done before the convention convened, averted the floor fights which usually attend their nominating maneuvers...
...telephone her story in time for her paper's next edition. "Who's that in my room?" growled Corrigan like all three bears. American Airlines Pressagent Carl Anderson, whose employers squired Corrigan's tour, told him. "Well, get her out," said Corrigan. Pressagent Anderson tried to explain. "Listen here, you," barked Corrigan, "when I tell you to do something, you jump." Anderson fetched Miss Underwood away from Corrigan's phone, but Governor Merriam, who comes up for reelection this fall, came to the rescue. "Little lady," said he, "you may use my phone any time...
...Thingumabob . . . gallantly lifted himself to his feet again as the track veterinarian shot him dead" (TIME, Aug. 22). Let TIME or veterinary scientists explain why broken ankles and legs cannot be set, why valuable horseflesh is sacrificed. There must be a reason, other than such horses' usefulness as moneymakers (or losers) is ended...
...trouble which beset the Youngstown issue helps explain a relatively new departure in U. S. financing-private sale of securities from corporation to investor without benefit of underwriters or SEC. Last year this kind of quiet dickering achieved a record volume of $500,000,000. This year, private sales have already reached $300,000,000. Fortnight ago, Celanese Corp. floated $10,000,000 in debentures privately. Other examples: U. S. Rubber, $45,000,000; Consolidated Oil $25,000,000; Detroit Edison...
Aware of this, President Lasser went to Chairman Sheppard of the Senate's Campaign Expenditures Committee to explain that the Workers Alliance fund would not: 1) be raised exclusively among WPA workers, 2) be contributed to any party war-chest, 3) spent by anyone but the Workers Alliance-for pamphlets, mass meetings, radio time to tell the unemployed where their "interests" in the Congressional campaign lie. Unimpressed, Chairman Sheppard last week wrote to President Lasser: "Personally, I warn you . . . not to carry out this proposed plan. . . . If you proceed. . . and if the committee should agree with my interpretation...