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...Hoyt's place came 38-year-old, Natchez-born George W. Healy, on a ten-months leave of absence from his job as managing editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. The reserved Mr. Healy had no plans for any change in the Domestic Branch's inherited setup. When he returns next October to Louisiana, his predecessor may be well on his way back to Washington, though in another branch of government. For the State of Oregon will have to pick a new Senator...
...biggest hornet's nest in domestic politics. Franklin Roosevelt's relations with Southern Democrats have never been worse. The FEPC ruling merely poured gasoline on a fire. Virginia's Representative Howard Smith, always ready to investigate the New Deal, stood ready to probe the whole FEPC setup...
...years. Said Y. & R., in its best let's-not-knife-the-competition-in-public manner: "No comment." And the peripatetic Ford account, for which J.W.T. hastily divested itself of its small slice of Chrysler business, moved over for a very significant reason: J.W.T.'s worldwide agency setup...
...never been a cut-&-dried, Big-Five or Big-Seven operation: stars and producers float around from studio to studio; some of the biggest producing companies have no studios of their own; some of the biggest studio owners have virtually no production under their own trademarks. This intricate, fluid setup was a natural for a man with J. Arthur Rank's wealth and financial acumen. Until he descended upon the British cinema industry, this setup had also been a natural for the big U.S. producers, who made almost all the good pictures anyway. The U.S. had maintained a stranglehold...
...what process are rates fixed nationally? How does the underwriters' national setup operate and "from what public source did it receive its authority...