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...office of Washington's Secretary of State, filled out her husband's declaration of candidacy, which he signed. Reason: His mother wished him to. He announced he would run not as "a personality" but as a man "who stands for certain principles." Two days later 17 local railway union groups endorsed him on this platform and Representative Zioncheck rousingly declared: "I still feel that even if all those things they say about me are true, I'm the best man they've had in Congress from this State...
...virtually certain. Reasonably Mr. Dubinsky offered to promise on behalf of five C. I. O. unions that they would let the issue be decided at the Convention not by the two-thirds vote, but by a simple majority. For answer 15th Vice President William D. Mahon of the street railway employes' union shortly declared that he was convinced of C. I. O.'s guilt, and Tenth Vice President William L. Hutcheson of the carpenters' union, whom Mr. Lewis punched in the jaw at Atlantic City last year, announced that his members wanted "Action...
Just now buttons, shoes, dress goods, fountain pens and other articles of culture on which Russians have had to skimp for 20 years, are momentarily abundant in Moscow, having just arrived from Japan in barter-payment for Russia's share of the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, March 25, 1935). Long queues of buyers at once formed but Soviet police, as usual, shortened them by the old device of arresting as "speculators" persons who bought more than one or two articles. Sentenced to five years in jail was a Moscow housewife who had bought only one pair of shoes...
...printed on are sometimes traded on the New York Stock Exchange but they are usually quoted in pennies. Last week a stock selling for $12 per share was stricken from the board on the voluntary confession of the company that its shares were worthless. The company was Connecticut Railway & Lighting, which has 89,772 shares of common outstanding, besides 81,429 of preferred which were not affected by last week's action...
...Connecticut Railway & Lifting leased its gas, electric and street railway properties for 999 years to Consolidated Railway Co., which was later absorbed by New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Co. New Haven sublet the gas and electric properties to Connecticut Light & Power Co. The traction properties were sublet to a New Haven subsidiary called Connecticut Co. Last year all Connecticut Railway & Lighting had to do was collect $1,400,000 per year from its leases, distribute interest and dividends pay taxes. More than $1,000,000 of its income was derived from the traction properties, not because the streetcar...