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When Postmaster Peterson of Douglas, Ga., committed suicide this spring (TIME, April 16), people said it was because he had gone broke paying the politicians for his job. It aroused a Senate investigation of how Federal patronage is dispensed in the South, an investigation which got afoot last week under the leadership of Iowa's Brookhart. Georgia's George was on the committee, too, and Ohio's newly-seated Locher...
...Strictly speaking, the Capone residence is just outside Chicago, in ill-famed Cicero, Ill. But the Capone operations are inside the city limits. Chicago's police and Mr. Capone understand each other when a civic "cleanup" is afoot...
...Neil (fugitive from justice), all of whom participated in the Continental Trading Co.'s big deal-would be made to pay penalties for evasion of taxes on Continental profits. It was "not compatible with public interest" to say how much the belated penalties would be. Treasury investigations were afoot...
...Belgium's hero Cardinal, the late Desire Mercier, to serve as an inscription across the facade of the rebuilt Library of Louvain. To gentle yet righteously incensed Desire Mercier "furore" seemed none too harsh a word to apply to Huns; but nowadays there is a milksop movement afoot to emasculate the Louvain inscription until it could not possibly give offense to those jovial, harmless fellows the Germans, who sacked and burned the original Library of Louvain...
...like strawberry vines from a parent plant. Nor have they, except for the Kroger grocery stores and the J. C. Penney dry goods stores, done much to soften public opinion excited against them by the neighborhood store keepers. Kroger's and Penney's this year have set afoot large campaigns of "institutional" advertising, praising the service of the chains and attempting to "humanize" them. Penney's, especially, is utilizing the personality of James Cash Penney, its founder. Other chains, on the other hand, keep up the policy of vending food impersonally...