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Last year Theodore L. Moritz was trained in the school of political circus master: he was secretary to Mayor McNair of Pittsburgh. Last autumn he got his diploma in clowning: Pittsburgh elected him to Congress. Last week connoisseurs, who expected much of his political antics, discovered to their surprise that the first bill introduced by Mr. Moritz contained the seeds of great good sense...
...Litvinoff had meanwhile secretly begotten in draft form the Eastern Locarno Pact first revealed by M. Barthou at London (July 8, 1934), today the diplomatic white hope of Europe. Rumor persists that he and Comrade Litvinoff arranged a Russo-French military entente. In the French Chamber of Deputies last autumn Military Budget Rapporteur Archimbaud blabbed: "The Russian Army . . . has been offered to us in the event of war with Germany...
...autumn day in 1933, shortly after she sued Harold Fowler McCormick for $1,500,000 for breach of promise, Mrs. Rhoda Tanner Doubleday was standing on the practice tee of the Valley Club at Santa Clara, Calif. Few feet away, she claims, Major Max Fleischmann, chairman of Standard Brands' finance committee, was booming out his opinion of her and her suit. Halting a No. 3 iron in midair, Mrs. Doubleday pricked up her ears, listened, flushed, stormed off the tee. Last week, with the McCormick suit settled for $65,000, she turned on Major Fleischmann. Suing in Manhattan...
...busy Broadway corner, one Walter King was picked up by a Manhattan detective who accused him vaguely of swindling "a professor who wrote a lot of books." The professor was Duke University's famed psychologist William McDougall.† Last time Professor McDougall saw King was one autumn day in 1933. That day he gave King and a companion $10,550 in the morning, $10,000 more in the afternoon, for "royalty rights'' to oil fields in Iowa...
...both of them. One is Emory University, which Oglethorpe's ebullient President Thornwell Jacobs once accused of running an "Al Capone racket" to keep Oglethorpe graduates out of teaching jobs in Atlanta schools. The other, thanks largely to Hearst beneficence, is Communism. Nathan Yagol, imprisoned ten days last autumn for attending a Communist meeting, was coming to lecture on Russia...