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Inhibited by the need for keeping professional secrets from criminals, officers of the law usually write books that have all the bad features of detective stories and none of their ingenuity. By no means so pompous in his professional recollections as Sir Basil Thomson, onetime chief of Scotland Yard (The Story of Scotland Yard), Melvin Horace Purvis, onetime head of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, nevertheless falls into the literary ambush that has trapped so many of his predecessors, composing an account that contains two parts of philosophizing on crime to every one part of concrete...
...long table was laden with sandwiches, pie, doughnuts, coffee, pitchers of new cider pressed that day. In the dining room the table was covered with charts and tables showing the trend of the voting. From room to room wandered intimates of the Roosevelt family: his former law partner, Basil O'Connor; his preacher publicist, Stanley High; his Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.; his frequent campaign companions, Judge & Mrs. Samuel I. Rosenman; his yachting friend, Vincent Astor; his uncle, Frederic A. Delano; his bright young Brain Trust lawyer, Tom Corcoran, with a broad Irish smile, who made the evening...
...this violent polemic against the world's munitions makers opened in Manhattan last week, the League of Nations estimated that $9,295,000,000 was spent on armaments in 1935. The action of Mr. Kingsley's play, however, closes in 1927. In Ten Million Ghosts, Sir Basil Zaharoff is transformed into ''Zacharey'' (George Coulouris). France's great steel & armaments association, the Comite des Forges, is called "Universe Forges Inc." A young French poet named Andre (Orson Welles) is in love with Madeleine de Kruif (Barbara O'Neil). He becomes a War aviator...
...officers elected are: George R. Ellis 1G.B., president; Hume Dow '38, vice-president in charge of speakers; George L. Weissman '39, vice-president in charge of literature; Robert R. Ross '37, assistant speakers committee; Howard Houseman 3L., secretary; Robert H. Chase '38, treasurer; and Basil Pollit '40, Freshman representative...
...airmail contracts, Elliott Roosevelt and Anthony Fokker had a scheme afoot, supposedly encouraged by the President, to form a great U. S. air transport combine, in which Elliott was to have received 5% of the stock for his efforts; that Herbert Reed went to Manhattan to discuss it with Basil O'Connor, the President's onetime law partner; that Elliott Roosevelt flew to Miami to see his father aboard the Nourmahal and thence to Washington where he told Reed at breakfast in the White House...