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Adolph Ochs's impulsive genius was responsible for his first successes. He held what he had gained by surrounding himself with able men, like Editor Rollo Ogden, and famed Managing Editor Carr Van Anda; like his Business Manager Louis Wiley, who died last month (TIME, April 1), and his own Son-in-Law Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who married his only child Iphigene. With Son-in-Law Sulzberger at the helm, the Times, in the words of its obituary, is a monument with "meaning enough for one life...
...blue-blooded Representative Robert Low Bacon of Long Island introduced in the House a bill for repeal of the income tax publicity ("pink slip") clause of the 1934 Revenue Act. Wiseacres dismissed it as a footling political gesture, aimed solely to show J. P. Morgan, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, Ogden L. Mills, William Averell Harriman and other members of Republican Bacon's ultra-rich constituency that his heart was in the right place...
Died. Mrs. Mary Hone Ogden Adams, 92, relict of Charles Francis, grandson of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the U. S.; in Concord, Mass. Matriarch of the famed family, she had eleven grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, was the aunt of onetime Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams...
...bakers of cookies and crackers. In the 37 years of its history it has never missed a dividend; last year made $11,598,000. On its board sit such conservative stalwarts as President Jackson Eli Reynolds of Manhattan's First National Bank and onetime Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills. The last person you would expect to see at its annual meetings would be a stocky, blue-eyed, personable young labor leader with a fistful of proxies from striking but stockholding employes...
...Philadelphia plant last January with the workers also charging breach of contract. President Calvin's 3,000 Manhattan workers struck sympathetically, followed by truck drivers. Within a few days the Newark, N. J. Cake Bakery, the Atlanta Bakery and the York, Pa. Pretzel Factory suffered walkouts. Director Ogden Mills's house at No. 2 East 69th Street was picketed.* Currently both sides are accusing each other of thuggery, intimidation and general foul play...