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...Fish Caught. Seven thousand men and 3,500 women were interned as enemy aliens. The net thrown out for fifth columnists and quislings brought in some bigger fish, including Leader Sir Oswald Mosley of the British Union of Fascists; Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay, Conservative M. P. and ardent Hitlerite; onetime M. P. John Beckett, militant pacifist and nuisance (he once tried to steal the Speaker's mace in the House of Commons); Germany's master spy and saboteur in World War I, Captain Franz von Rintelen...
...whole series of politician Air Secretaries have bumbled and bungled without getting hurry up aircraft production on half the necessary scale. Churchill set up a new Ministry of Aircraft Production (separate from the Air Ministry headed by an old Etonian, Sir Archibald Sinclair...
...late hour for Britain to ask miracles of aircraft production. But Lord Beaverbrook, a friend of Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair and a buddy of U. S. Ambassador Joe Kennedy, wasted no time lamenting. He got to work. The study of his palatial Stornoway House in London became his Ministry. He launched a lightning survey of the present status of British aircraft production, ripped out orders which brought aircraft-factory heads scrambling from all over the kingdom for lightning interviews with The Beaver. Most important of all, pals Max and Joe conferred regarding acceleration of U. S. aircraft shipments...
...Married. Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Jr., 22, grandson of the 26th President of the U. S. ; and Socialite Katharine Tweed, 20, daughter of Countess Eleanor Palffy and Harrison Tweed; at the Little Church Around the Corner, in Manhattan...
Gary Grant has made better pictures than My Favorite-Wife. He has seldom collected a better fee-$100,000. For a boy who was born Archibald Leach in Bristol, England and ran away at twelve to join a tumbling act, this...