Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Last week Magistrate J. L. Barnhill of Halifax announced that he had been "very much put out" to hear, the very night the troopships left Halifax, a broadcast from Germany announcing that the ships had left, and how many. After the ships' safe arrival, he gave suspended two-year jail sentences to three women who pleaded guilty to writing indiscreet letters to persons in the U. S. about ship movements at Halifax...
...Secondly, the election of Cardinal Pacelli as Pius XII convinced me that there is only one moral authority left in the world and that is the Papacy...
Many a small town (e.g., Kelso, Wash., Nashville and Clarksville, Ark., Ukiah, Calif.) was left without any daily, dependent on papers from big cities near by. In several cities (e.g., San Diego) the only papers that remain are owned by one publisher. Of the 75 that folded, eleven disappeared by merger, 64 simply folded...
Three years ago Broadcaster Aylesworth left NBC, took a new job as president and chairman of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. Then in 1937, having done what he could for R.K.O., Producer Aylesworth gave up cinema, went to work for the management of Scripps-Howard Newspapers. No lover of the New Deal, he suited President Roy Howard's increasing distaste for the Roosevelt Administration. Last year Roy Howard upped Ray Allen Huber, publisher of the New York World-Telegram, made him general manager of Scripps-Howard newspapers and put Merlin Aylesworth in charge of the World-Telegram...
...Arrowhead but an oldtimer. On its site for 34 years stood a creaky, bulbous-Victorian hotel building. Soon after Paley & friends bought the place (including 1,800 acres of ground) for $800,000, a fire destroyed the old building, which they would have had to tear down, left them richer by $277,671 in insurance. To lay out the new buildings Architects Gordon Kaufman and Paul Williams were hired, turned out an imposing, 69-room hunk of hotel (late Californian with a Southern Georgian trace), plunked on a handsome mountainside. To dress it up inside, Decorator Dorothy Draper was brought...