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...SECOND MYSTERY BOOK-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Works by those well-known slicks: Anthony Abbott (Thatcher Colt), Leslie Ford (Colonel Primrose), David Frome (Mr. Pinkerton), Mary Roberts Rinehart, Rex Stout (Tecumseh Fox), Philip Wylie. Well worth the extra...
Adams House will have three Nieman Fellows: Arthur D. Eggleston and Ralph J. Werner as non-resident members, and William M. Pinkerton as a resident. Eggleston, who will be here only for the first half year, is a labor columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and has studied at the University of California. Werner is assistant financial editor of the Milwaukee Journal, and has emphasized a simplified presentation of financial and business news through charts, photographs, and "humanized" writing style. Pinkerton is a Washington reporter for the Associated Press, a former student at the University of Wisconsin, and a specialist...
Drawing heavily on a special Willkie supplement issued by the labor-loving New Republic, Democratic Boss Edward J. Flynn issued a provocative statement on Willkie and Labor. Highlights: that Mr. Willkie's Georgia Power Co. spent $31,000 on labor spies from Pinkerton's; that Mr. Willkie's Central Illinois Light bought tear-gas guns and shells; that no fewer than three of the Willkie companies were clients of the biggest espionage agency devoted solely to industrial work. Mr. Flynn also charged that Consumers Power Co. and Alabama Power Co., both Commonwealth & Southern subsidiaries, were found guilty...
...boss's explanation was confirmed by Georgia Power Co.'s President Preston S. Arkwright, who said that though the operators were supplied by "the Pinkerton agency," this had "nothing to do with labor or labor unions." President Ross C. Wallace of Central Illinois Light Co. spoke up about the tear gas and shells: $500 worth were bought for burglary protection and to patrol the company's lines when a neighboring company was on strike. In Springfield, ILL., Eugene Scott, business manager of Local 702 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (A. F. of L.), gave Central...
William M. Pinkerton, reporter, Associated Press, Washington, D.C.: Alexander Kendrick, news reviewer and book editor, Philadelphia Inquirer; and George Chaplin, city editor, Greenville (S.C.) Piedmont...