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...pitiable" state of elderly Episcopal clergymen moved Bishop William Lawrence (now retired) of Massachusetts to raise $8,700,000 among U. S. Episcopalians, help found the Church Pension Fund. Treasurer of this organization today is J. P. Morgan, although the man who really runs it is dapper, twinkling, argumentative Bradford B. Locke of Princeton, its able executive vice president. Last week the Church Pension Fund held its 21st annual meeting in Manhattan, heard from its President William Fellowes Morgan that its assets now stand at a fat $33,000,000. A new problem, however, faced the Fund-the possibility that...
Less fortunate was Joseph Shaw, the 49-year-old retired Navy lieutenant who was regarded as kingpin of the Shaw regime. Joseph Shaw retired from the Navy on pension in 1933. That year his older brother was elected mayor and he promptly moved in with him as secretary. Although Brother Joseph modestly described himself as a flag officer to Brother Frank, the admiral, the impression got about that Brother Joseph really ran things. To him went credit for the new air base, supply warehouses and improved anchorages which have made Los Angeles one of the Navy's favorite ports...
...Police Chief Davis, a full-blooded strong man who liked to bait "communists" and to shoot chalk from behind his subordinates' ears with a pistol, resigned before Mayor Bowron could carry out his threat to oust him. Chief Davis explained that he was thinking of his $328 monthly pension. Mayor Bowron explained: "All in all, I cannot but feel that James E. Davis quit under fire...
Sunset pays almost no attention to such overexploited aspects of Western life as Hollywood, pension plans and college football, but goes in big for new kinds of auto trailers, mountain cabins, patios. It never touches on controversial matters like politics or labor trouble. It plugs the "how-to-do-it" angle, with simple diagrams showing how to design anything from a homespun lampshade to a barbecue oven. Its unvarying, chirpy cheerfulness grates on Eastern nerves, but is fully justified by results to date. Profits for 1938 will be approximately $25,000 as compared with a loss of $71,822 during...
...Knox was arrested on the charge of forging her mother's endorsement to pension checks, but she refused to believe her mother was dead, could not explain the whereabouts of Sumner Knox. When a State detective tried to snatch a letter from her, powerful Mrs. Knox jerked his arm so hard that she broke a knitting fracture in his neck. Her lawyer announced: "She wants the public to feel that she is at least halfway human-not at all the monster that idle rumor has made...