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...Judge Paul Jones, a jury of eight men and four women pronounced Mr. Nutt not guilty. Said he: "My conscience is clear." ¶ When John Jeremiah Pelley went to Washington to head the new Association of American Railroads (TIME, Oct 1), it was a foregone conclusion that his right-hand man, Howard Shirley Palmer, would succeed him as president of New York. New Haven & Hartford. Last week President Palmer, whose father was and is the Maine Central station agent at East Summer, Me., assumed his duties. First day he arrived at his office...
Minnesota. The Republicans were hoping to slip to victory while an argument went on between the Farmer-Laborites headed by Senator Shipstead and Governor Olson and the Democrats as to who had support of the New Deal. Emil Hurja, Boss Farley's right-hand man, last week visited Minnesota and announced that the Administration was solidly behind the Democratic ticket-Einar Hoidale for Senator, John Regan for Governor. Hardly had Mr. Hurja got back to Washington, however, before President Roosevelt, who had dealt more than kindly with Messrs. Shipstead and Olson, announced that he was not taking sides...
...paid another $19,000,000 for a string of Gaumont theatres in Britain without ever looking at them. But he owed all this money in short-term notes. When the market crash caught him amidships, his creditors hemmed him in, charged him with mismanagement. Even his able right-hand man, Winfield ("Winnie") Sheehan, turned against him. When the smoke of battle cleared, William Fox had been beaten and ousted by a group headed by Utilitarian Harley Lyman Clarke of General Theatres Equipment Corp., Harold Leonard Halsey of Halsey, Stuart & Co., and John Edward Otterson of Electrical Research Products, Inc., subsidiary...
...meet, which begins at 3.30, will follow a route slightly different from that of previous years. Beginning as usual near the Larz Anderson Bridge, the harriers will go up the right-hand side of the river but instead of taking in Cemetery hill, they will detour below it; road construction necessitating the change. the runners will finish at the Newell Boat House...
Lately Rio de Janeiro has buzzed with talk of a rift between President Vargas and his right-hand man. When the President made an appointment against his wishes, Senhor Aranha resigned from his treasury post, was persuaded to reconsider. Probably his standing at home will depend on what he does for huge Brazil's huge coffee output in the trade treaty negotiations pending in Washington. It was Strong Man Aranha who guided the Departamento Nacional do Café, whose wholesale destruction of coffee has brought Brazil something of a boom...