Word: j
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Died. J. Sterling Getchell, 41, founder and head of J. Sterling Getchell, Inc., big Manhattan advertising firm which handles such accounts as Plymouth and Socony-Vacuum; of a streptococcus infection; in Manhattan...
...late as last May, Scribner's Commentator had as its top name-writers Playwright J. P. McEvoy, Crooner Kate Smith, Comedian Fred Allen. But in August it burst forth with Charles Lindbergh on the cover, a flattering story about Lindbergh inside, pieces on the New Deal's international sympathies and "warmongers...
...pulled off by the child's mother. He follows his steady nose through the most sidesplitting chase sequences since the days of the Keystone cops. He is surrounded but not obscured by such accomplices as Franklin Pangborn, Shemp Howard and Jessie Ralph, bearing such names as J. Pinkerton Snoopington, Joe Guelpe and Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch...
...like a revolutionary. He did not set up any industrial TVAs; he merely "took what the banks left over." By Dec. 1, 1940 he had made commitments of $14,842,000,000 to banks, insurance companies, railroads, industries and other Government agencies. He had in fact usurped the first J. P. Morgan's job as U. S. moneybags...
...City Council of Burlington, N. J. complained that Pennsylvania Railroad trains were breaking the city speed limit of 5 m.p.h. A police sergeant clocked them as high as 15 or 20 m.p.h...