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...soft coal mines of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, part of Kentucky.- Offshoot of the NRA coal code, the agreement prescribed conditions of labor for some 314,000 diggers in hitherto non-union mines. It gave United Mine Workers their own checkweightmen, their own grievance committees, freed them from the necessity of living in company houses, trading at company stores, opened new jobs now held by some 6,000 boys under 17. Out of it operators got the assurance that there would not be another bituminous coal strike at least until April 1, 1934-Room...
...wiseacres have spotted him as the country's future dictator, a post that the two-fisted Major does not want. He is still personally loyal to Engelbert Dollfuss, wants him to be the Dictator leaving the Major in the post he holds now, the fist of the dictatorship, freed from its responsibilities. For Prince von Starhemberg, his immediate superior, he has an ideal solution. Like Hungary, he would make Austria a kingless monarchy, with Starhemberg taking a place like Hungary's Horthy as Regent...
...with which to recoup his fortune. Wall Street, feeling that Mr. Pynchon had failed with honor, was glad last week to hear an announcement: the brokerage firm of Mallory, Eisemann & Co. (Franklin I. Mallory, husband of Molla Bjurstedt and no kin of Mr. Pynchon; Alexander Eisemann, onetime head of Freed-Eisemann Radio Corp.) is henceforth to be Mallory, Pynchon & Eisemann...
...their Alleghany Corp. whose assets are now impounded by the trustee of its bond issues. Alleghany's assets include Chesapeake Corp. stock and if Alleghany's assets rise to 150% of the par value of Alleghany's bonds, the income from the impounded assets will be freed to pay charges on other Alleghany Corp. obligations falling due in October. The Van Sweringens' financial structure of wheels within wheels begins to gain power as soon as the innermost wheel starts turning out more money...
...John J. ("Butch") O'Connell Jr., 24-year-old nephew of the Democratic bosses of Albany, N. Y., had not been freed. For the first time since he was spirited away three weeks ago his uncles agreed to talk. To a list of 13 questions put to him by newshawks, Uncle Edward gave brief staccato answers over the telephone. He admitted that he had not succeeded in establishing direct contact with the kidnappers, denied rumors that he had already paid a ransom. "We are waiting for news," said...