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Curtis-Martin published the Inquirer along with their Public Ledger and Evening Ledger for four years, but the Philadelphia newspaper seas were heavy. Last spring Publisher Martin, who had already cut loose one of his stepfather-in-law's newspapers (New York Evening Post), tried to trim his load further by merging the Inquirer and Public Ledger (TIME, April 16). Last week he abandoned ship. The Inquirer, combined with what is left of the Public Ledger, will be taken in tow again by the Elversons as salvage for the notes which profits evidently...
...cannot make profits under a new order unless first of all you are making them under some kind of order. First of all let private businessmen make profits-then trim these profits if you want to, under regulations...
...task to borrow money from reluctant bankers ... to labor with Congressional committees in the formulation of financial legislation; to devise remedial measures for a deranged cu rency; to make forecasts and prepare estimates in days when financial responsibility was diffused ... to trim the sails of fiscal policy to political winds; to market the huge loans which constituted the chief reliance of an improvident Gov ernment." For all the years between them those words about Secretary Chase may well have a familiar ring to Secretary Morgenthau...
...Baby" darted out the runway to his cage. The crowd pressed up around the steel-barred ring, still roaring, "Shoot the lion!" After a while the spectators went back to their seats. Once more "Baby" came into the ring, this time with five other lions and Miss Marion Knowlton, trim young animal trainer. Obediently "Baby" leaped over her, lay down beside her. There were dark red splotches around his tawny jaws...
Field's is not a store to trim its sails to every wind of circumstance. It regards itself as an Institution. The shades on its great plate glass windows are drawn on the Sabbath and no advertising for the main Field store is ever seen in a Sunday newspaper. Beer is served only in the Men's Grill; hard liquor, in no Field restaurant at all. And for the benefit of Gold Coasters, whether or not they are in a buying mood, Field maintains an inventory of every kind of expensive thing...