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...Coughlin, Roman Catholic priest of the Diocese of Detroit, whose weekly talk over a 16-station hook-up was a Columbia religious feature last year. Father Coughlin several years ago began to be heard over the radio on time bought with money given him by worshippers at his Royal Oak. Mich, shrine to Ste. Therese, the Little Flower of Jesus. Contributions from wealthy Detroit Catholics later enabled him to buy an hour a week from Columbia. He used this time at first to praise Ste. Therese, later to denounce Communism, unemployment, employers and finally specific employers. Embarrassed by his zeal...
...spacious oak-paneled chamber of New York State's Court of Appeals at Albany, last week issued a fine distinction. The case was one of Municipal bribery, civic corruption. The decision confirmed the jailing of a citizen who had refused to tell a committee of the Legislature whether he had bribed an official of New York City. At the same time it denied that that legislative committee had power to deal similarly with any suspected citizen in its search for civic corruption. The fine distinction was between actual bribery and conspiracy to bribe. Straightway the legislative committee moved to erase...
...birthday fell last fortnight) "P. W." is big, erect, a typical Yankee shipbuilder only using duralumin for oak, Maybachs for mainsails, the sky for the sea. He does not drink; close associates can recall perhaps a dozen times when they have seen him smoke a cigaret in recent years. He drives one of several automobiles to and from his air-conditioned office. He exercises in his own gymnasium at home, riding an electric horse, heaving a medicine ball, does not chum with Akron's other leading citizens, Firestones and Seiberlings. He does not invite his Goodyear "cabinet" to exercise...
Polo has never been a major sport in Chicago. Of recent years it has been played by scattered groups each dominated by the man who owned the field-domineering Col. Robert Rutherford (Chicago Tribune] McCormick at Catigny Farm, ambitious Paul Butler (paper) at Oak Brook (he has eight fields), successful John Hertz (taxicabs) at Leona Farms, and A. C. Barger at North Shore...
...James Ramsay Hunt Jr., son of Dr. James Ramsay Hunt who served as War-time neuropsychiatrist with the A. E. F.; at St. John's of Lattingtown, Locust Valley, L. I. (tiny socialite church to which Banker John Pierpont Morgan presented last year a brand new carved oak interior...