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...Browder, 48-year-old Communist leader. Indicted on a passport-fraud charge, he had already spent one night in the detention pen. Hester Huntington had met him for the first time the day before. Said she: "I did it on principle." Grateful Mr. Browder walked out of jail to await trial...
...stop when he reached Russia, and to collect his slice of Poland without fighting, reopen the trans-Poland rail line from Minsk to Berlin, if & when the conquest was complete. Between the Poles and Stalin still lay the Pripet Marshes where they could hole up for the winter, await the outcome of their Allies' effort in the West...
...safeguard premiums and for payment of possible U. S. claims for war-sunk ships, Lloyd's of London, world's leading insurance syndicate, had transferred $40,000,000 to New York. Meantime, U. S. exporters await anxiously how and whether the Neutrality Act will be applied. Strict enforcement of the Act would prevent exports in vessels of any nationality of arms, ammunition or implements of war for belligerent states- would put a crimp in present foreign commitments outstanding. Just under the wire last week a British steamer slipped out of San Pedro (Port of Los Angeles) with twenty...
...pact broke, Elder Statesman Churchill caught a plane for Croydon, dashed off a brilliant article for the London Daily Mirror, At the Eleventh Hour, on his way home. "Along all frontiers hundreds of thousands of men, armed with the most deadly weapons ever known, and behind them millions more, await the dread signal. There is only one man who can give it. There he sits, torn by passion and foreboding, by appetites and fears, with his finger moving toward a button which-if he presses it-will explode what is left of civilization. . . . But the choice is still open. There...
...Democratic Boss Pendergast and indicted Philadelphia's Republican Publisher Moses ("Moe") Annenberg for income-tax evasion, having prosecuted Federal Judge Martin Manton for "selling justice" in Manhattan and proceeded against big-shot Lawyers Louis Levy and Paul Hahn for their dealings with Judge Manton (rulings on their disbarment await the outcome of Judge Manton's appeal), Mr. Murphy's men are about to go to work on some of Hollywood's richest cinemagnates for alleged income-tax evasion and antitrust violations, and on the powerful stagehands union on charges of labor racketeering. Murphy men are also...