Mail House Fight Heats Up as Ward Rival Emerges
Moran age 80 Avery battles 42 year old Louis Wolfson for control of Montgomery Ward Chicago mail order company Wolfson heads firms with about 200 million in assets pairing a proxy fight to win stockholder backing at Ward's April meeting Analysts compare it to the New York Central clash between Robert R Young and rival interests Ward, Sears and Roebuck contrast their cash reserves growth and dividend policy with Ward's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Goldenstein
Chicago
Sewell L. Avery
Louis E. Wolfson
Wolfson
Florida
Avery
Montgomery Ward and Co
Ward
Robert R. Young
New York Central Railroad
Ward’s
War Labor Board
Hiss
J. P. Morgan
Nineman
Ward's
Sears, Roebuck and Co
Sears
Morgan Company
Warg
United
Montgomery Ward and Company
Associates
Why cats purr and the first pet Miss Puss explains
Andy explains cat purring origins from the throat with an extra set of false vocal cords used only for purring. He notes Miss Bridget’s hint that cats purrr when happy and relaxed, and that people should make cats content to hear them purr. The piece also briefly describes Earth's jackets the lithosphere hydrosphere atmosphere and clarifies shoal vs shoal terminology.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andy
Jimmy Stalker
Rochester
N. Y
Miss Puss
Puss
Kitty
Miss Bridget
State Briefs Highlight Decline in Violent Deaths and Poliomyelitis
Hartford reports 515 violent deaths in the first seven months of 1954, 51 fewer than the same period last year, with optimism that 1954 may be among Connecticut’s safest years. Infantile paralysis cases total 166 through Sept 4, down from 200 in 1953, while German measles and gonorrhea rose last week. The Connecticut VFW plans to push a 1955 bill to curb sale of certain comic books, calling them immoral and subversive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Connecticut Safety Commission
Connecticut
State Health Department
Connecticut Department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Dept
Henry T. Pinchera
VFW
Adenauer Acts To Heal Franco German Rift In Europe
Bonn reports indicate Konrad Adenauer, 78, offers a conciliatory path to mend the France West Germany rift and preserve the American backed European unity plan. He appeals for Franco German cooperation and seeks new means to integrate Europe while warning against fully abandoning the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adenauer
Germany
France
Bonn
Konrad Adenauer
West Germany
French National Assembly
America
Black Forest
Britain
United States
Benelux
Mendes- France
European Army
Schleswig-Holstein
Europe
West
Instructed Flight Crashes Near Windham Airport
An instructor Daniel McCarthy and pupil Stanley Whitehouse escaped unharmed when their Piper Cub light plane failed shortly after takeoff near Windham town airport. The craft nosed into a woods patch at about 30 feet, wedging between trees. McCarthy, 34, Willimantic, piloted the aircraft. Whitehouse, 32, Ashford, was seated beside him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Windham
Windham Town
Daniel McCarthy
Willimantic
Stanley Whitehouse
Ashford
Two Autoists Booked For Tipsy Operation
Two autoists were arrested Saturday night on drunken driving charges. Machell Dirga, 42, of 118 Williston Street, was booked at 10 p.m. after his truck was found parked on Beach Street near Barnum avenue. Stanley Stovich, 45, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was arrested in the West End at 10:15 p.m. Both are held on $500 bond each awaiting City Court hearings.
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Machell Dirga
Williston Street
Beach Street
Barnum Avenue
Stanley Stovich
Milwaukee
Wis
West End
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Financial
Mail House
Montgomery Ward
Morgan
George Whitney
H. P. Davison
Ward Board
Massachusetts Investors Trust
Walter Morgan
Wellington Fund
Laywell
Broad ST
Bridgeport
A. Root & Sons, Inc
Lafayette Street
Chubby
Iles Cannon St
Burns
Lindley ST
Tel
Conn
Earth
Askandy, Care Columbia Features, Inc
West 44Th Street
New York
N.Y
Brack Curry
Associated Press
United States of America
Federal Republic
Bostwick Safe
Oreos
Conlin's Wholesale Dept
Golden Hill Street
Golden Hill
Dacron
GIRLS
Nylon & Vicara Cardigans
Kays
Oxfords
Dasse
Deve
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