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Meantime, WPA, PWA, Congress and the U. S. Department of Justice peered more intently than ever into the use of Federal funds and the status of certain income taxes in Louisiana. Attorney Gen eral Frank Murphy in Washington intimated that he had known for weeks of matters amiss in Baton Rouge. Recently Mr. Murphy accepted an honorary de gree from...
Three hours after she had submerged, the Thetis was nowhere to be seen and her accompanying tug, which had lost contact with her, wirelessed ashore: "Something is amiss." A few uneasy relatives of the crew began to gather at the Birkenhead shipyards of Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd., builders of the Thetis. A flotilla of salvage ships, warships, tugs and submarines set out from ports from Birkenhead all the way round the bottom of England to Portsmouth. Royal Air Force planes soared the skies. All were looking for the telltale buoys which distressed submarines try to send to the surface...
...Senator Berry and Governor Browning. Pluralities of 86,000 and 74,000, respectively, were returned for the Crump-McKellar candidates, Lawyer Arthur Thomas Stewart of Winchester and Lawyer Prentice Cooper of Shelbyville. In politically amoral Memphis the Crumpsters could afford to conduct themselves so that there was nothing amiss for the Senate watchers to see. In the Crump precincts, normally delivered practically in toto to Crump candidates, Governor Browning was allowed to poll 9,000 votes against 56,000 for Lawyer Cooper, Senator Berry 6,000 against 64,000 for Lawyer Stewart...
...good instance of how closely the old men of tennis keep their juniors tabbed when the four top-seeded players cleared to the semifinals. But there calculations began to go amiss. Opposed were Isadore Bellis, seeded second, and Joseph Fishbach, seeded fourth; William Gillespie, seeded first, and Marvin Kantrowitz, seeded third. Fishbach and Kantrowitz trounced their opponents in straight sets, prepared to face off in the final. Both slim, dark New York City boys, they learned their tennis together on a concrete court back of the De Witt Clinton High School in The Bronx. Two years ago when they were...
Neither Premier Mussolini nor Fascist book censors saw anything amiss with Flying Over Ethiopian Mountain Ranges by Vittorio Mussolini, a 150-page book published last week in Rome. "My purpose is to have Italian youth learn from a young man," wrote Author Vittorio, ''what it feels like to be fighting a war when only 20 years of age, and to be above war's sorrows, seeing only its beauties...