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...commodity futures markets are President John Wesley Hanes, senior partner in Chas. D. Barney & Co., and First Vice President John L. Julian of Fenner & Beane. President Hanes may be a stockbroker by trade but he is a tobacco man by birth. His father helped found a big Winston-Salem tobacco company which was merged with R. J. Reynolds (Camels). After Yale (1915) and the War (Navy), "Johnny" Hanes went north to Wall Street. He is largely responsible for the fact that Chas. D. Barney & Co. today is regarded the leading authority on tobacco stocks. A big Reynolds' stockholder...
SHELDON F. SACKETT Managing Editor The Oregon Statesman Salem...
...Executive Mansion at Springfield, Ill. He paid a courtesy call on Catholic Bishop Griffin, toured the post office, lunched with and addressed the Mid-Day Club, made a speech at the Fair Grounds, visited Lincoln's home, placed a wreath on Lincoln's tomb, drove to New Salem, inspected all 13 of the reconstructed log cabins of the town of which Lincoln was postmaster. That night in Springfield he dined with practically every important Democrat in Illinois...
...preachers sagely nodded while Salem witches screamed and shriveled" ("Wall Reunion." TIME, July 9). Does "shriveled" mean some shrinkage or withering due to natural causes?or did a TIME writer, like those Puritan preachers, nod? In either case, because no modern delusion is more widespread or persistent among intelligent and otherwise well-informed persons than that concerning the manner in which the victims of the 17th Century Witchcraft Delusion perished, will you tell TIME readers exactly how many men and women, in all the American colonies, were ever burned for witchcraft? J. FRANK DAVIS...
...Witches" were burned in Europe, in South America and Mexico, but in Massachusetts they were hanged, with the exception of one who was "pressed to death." The 19 hanged at Salem were...