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Postmaster General. James Aloysius Farley, 44, took the portfolio that generally goes to a President-maker. More than any other man, he sold Franklin Roosevelt to the U. S. just as he used to sell gypsum and now sells building materials, through Elks' Clubs, among Red Men, by mail, over the telephone and in back-slapping personal contacts. Big, bald, breezy Jim Farley steps into the Post
...many crashes they were ready to build planes of their own. Zantford Granville was the designer, the four younger brothers craftsmen, mechanics. Their first product, the Gee-Bee Sportster, won the favor of Maude Tait Moriarity, woman racing pilot. She persuaded her father, James C. Tait, rich ice cream maker of Springfield, Mass., to back the Granvilles with a factory in Springfield...
...smalltown doctors to attend her - Dr. William Patrick Morse, 59, who lives along Rural Delivery Route No. 1 outside Princeton; and Dr. William Louard Cash, 53, obstetrician, who is Mayor of Princeton. They soothed her with drugs for 120 hours, then found and removed from her nose her sneeze-maker-a wild hair...
...Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. of Louisville, Ky., maker of one of the four best-selling 20-for-10? brands (Twenty Grand), announced a net profit for 1932 of $1,416,952, more than double its 1931 profit...
...American Tobacco Co., maker of Lucky Strike, one of the four big 15? brands, paid its regular quarterly dividend of $1.25 but omitted the usual $1 extra dividend. Wall Street heard that President George Washington Hill of American Tobacco was planning to cut prices below the $6 per 1,000 at which Luckies now wholesale, has sworn to run 10? cigarets out of business if he has to make them himself...