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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freddie rented a beard and paraded with the pickets. He also crusaded against Elmer ("Bones") Remmer, owner of San Francisco's three biggest gambling houses, and drove Bones out of business. (When offered a $500-a-month bribe to lay off, he hid a microphone and got a transcript of the offer; it made juicy reading...
...Rabelais, a biographer of Thomas Jefferson and Henry George. He wrote in an urbane, aloof style with an odd characteristic. At unpredictable points, caustic opinions on politics abruptly intruded, as if someone occasionally interrupted an hour of chamber music by reading well-written editorials from the Boston Evening Transcript. Editor Nock considered himself a radical...
Perhaps Americans ought to listen to the Moscow radio more. What they have been missing was disclosed this week by a monitored transcript of a Christmas broadcast, beamed in English to North America. A heavyhanded tale of Santa Claus and the FBI, the broadcast would make most U.S. citizens snicker. But after the snickers would come a little better sizing-up of the Soviet Communist mind...
...Andrew Jackson's ghostwriter and Postmaster General. Kendall usually stayed at the Astor House when he was in New York, a clue which sent Anderson on a futile search for the hotel register. He did learn, however, that in 1861 all hotel guests were reported in the Daily Transcript. The Yale library had a file-but the Feb. 19 issue was missing. In the New York Historical Society, Professor Anderson found the missing issue, which listed a J. Kendall among the Astor House guests. He thought J. Kendall might be a misprint for A. Kendall. Then he found that...
Home Missions. Many a key Episcopal bishop and layman opposed the program at first, but most who have heard a sample transcript are now enthusiastic. Other Episcopalians will make up their minds during the first 13 weeks of the series, for which the money is on hand. If the show is to be continued, an extra 3% will be asked in the Every-Member-Canvass pledges for 1949. The program will cost about $15,000 a week, over $11,000 of it for radio time at regular commercial rates. Musicians, technicians and minor actors will receive regular rates; the stars...