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...chairman of Chase National Bank. Mr. Dodge sent a memorandum to Mr. Wiggin, said that Kuhn, Loeb & Co. might be brought in on Fox financing, added, "I am loath to do [this] unless necessary, as the splitup of the gravy would hurt my feelings." Faced last week, with this memo, Mr. Dodge at first claimed that by gravy he had meant prestige...
...North Willys, automobileman, has an estate near Oyster Bay, Long Island. On the estate is a private beach. On the beach was found floating last week the body of a dead man. On the man was only underwear. His clothes, discovered later on the Willys beach, contained the following memo: "Sunday-Took a trip to Oyster Bay. The afternoon is sunny and cheerful. Sorry I did not bring my bathing suit, as I find quite a few bathing and enjoying it." The ill-fated intruder on Mr. Willys' private beach was identified as R. A. Richard, Manhattan salesman...
...yelling, seething, sweating, frenzied brokers. Friends of Mr. Cochran were skeptical about the truth of the interview, but nothing could stop General Motors stock from leaping upward, twelve points the first day, twelve more the second, finally reaching a record high of $213.75. Reporter Nicholl's pocket memo had added $70,000,000 to the stock market valuation of General Motors shares. Wise men of Wall Street assumed that Reporter Nicholls was no fool, that he had at least converted the information of his interview into a substantial nest egg, that his progeny would have silver spoons in their...
Weicker said the IRS memo on the formation of the special intelligence task force discussed various means by which the tax laws could be used to attack what it described variously as activist, ideological, radical, militant, or subversive groups...
...memo, signed by D.O. Virdin, added: "We do not want the news media to be alerted to what we are attempting to do or how we are operating because disclosure of such information might embarrass the administration...