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Hopping mad was Publisher James Hammond of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, whose prior bid of $200,000 for the Tennessean bonds had been rejected for no given reason. "It is plain," snapped Publisher Hammond, "that an agency of government has violated our national guarantee of a free press, and the revelation is shocking. We have had a situation which is a threat of Fascism...
...Robinson Green, Hetty Green's son; Vice President & Treasurer Charles G. Bancroft of United Shoe Machinery; J. A. Turrell, retired Woolworth executive. One day some of the members went to Leslie Buswell's home in Gloucester, Mass., then for luncheon at the nearby showplace of John Hays Hammond, who was ill abed, finally rejoining their ladies at Swampscott for a dance and clam bake...
...proxy fight for control of Madison Square Garden Corp. (TIME, Sept. 23), Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick (president) outpointed Colonel John S. Hammond (chairman) 144,000 to 129,000 votes. Starting in the club barroom of the famed sports arena, with a policeman at the door, the meeting lasted four days while election judges wrangled over the count. Colonel Hammond announced that he would challenge Colonel Kilpatrick's victory in the courts...
...West Point graduate who first met the Garden's late famed Tex Rickard in the Argentine, persuaded him to install hockey at Madison Square Garden in 1925, John S. Hammond was ousted from the Garden's vice-presidency in 1932, bought control in 1934, had himself made board chairman. His principal interest remains hockey, not prizefights. A one-time All-America Yale footballer who enlisted in the Army in 1916, got the Croix de Guerre and the Distinguished Service Medal during the War, John Reed Kilpatrick was put in as president of the Garden in 1933, has been...
Which course it will take, and how, will depend upon whether Colonel Hammond has enough proxies to oust Colonel Kilpatrick at next week's meeting...