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...Texas' House of Representatives at Austin, RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones, heard himself extolled for three hours as Texas' First Citizen, saw his portrait (see cut) unveiled amid cheers of one Governor, six ex-Governors, hundreds of Texas bigwigs. Telegrams were read from President Roosevelt, Vice President Garner, North Carolina's Senator Josiah W. Bailey, who hinted to Chairman Jones: "Maybe in 1940 we'll be looking to you to lead our Party to victory...
...creditors were never really worried about getting their money back, though deficits have been a Central rule since 1932. The problem is the carrier's, not its creditors'. But a possible solution developed hot correspondence between hard-hitting Jesse Holman Jones, RFChairman, and hard-hitting Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt, executive committee chairman of New York Central...
...ejected from an American Airliner at Detroit. There he hired Pilot William Joseph Mulqueeny and his friend Irwin Davis, a professional parachute-jumper, to fly him to Buffalo. At 10 p. m., they took off in a small cabin monoplane which once belonged to Torchsinger Libby Holman...
After a turn at making gunpowder canisters during the War, Nephew Richard organized U. S. Foil Co. to supply tin foil to the tobacco industry, with his family's orders as a logical backlog. By the time Libby Holman married his first cousin, Nephew Richard had branched into thermostats and Eskimo Pies and Reynolds Metals had succeeded to the business of U. S. Foil. Today Reynolds Metals is a $12,000,000 corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange but U. S. Foil, now simply a holding company, owns about 55% of its stock and also controls Eskimo...
Five out of ten U. S. citizens probably associate the name Reynolds with Camel cigarets, Prince Albert tobacco or Torch-singer Libby Holman. Nevertheless, in the land where containers are often more important than their contents, Reynolds Metals Co. is a major industrial name. World's largest maker of tin and other metal foils, the company was founded by Richard Samuel Reynolds, nephew of Winston-Salem's late Tobaccoman Richard Joshua Reynolds. Indeed, Nephew Richard is supposed to have persuaded R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. to concentrate on Camels before he struck out for himself...