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...Assistant to the Attorney General; Utah's Harold M. Stephen, Florida's Frank J. Wideman to be Assistant Attorneys General; Tennessee's John Harcourt Alexander Morgan* and Wisconsin's David E. Lilienthal to be Tennessee Valley Authority directors; Pennsylvania's Carroll Miller, brother-in-law of Demo-cratic Boss "Joe" Guffey, to be an Interstate Commerce Commissioner. ¶A White House caller last week was pretty Margaret Kruis, who was wounded in the head last February when Joe Zangara attempted to assassinate the President-elect at Miami. President Roosevelt recalled that he had visited Miss...
Vexed last week was upright Winthrop Williams Aldrich, brother-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and president of Chase National Bank (world's largest). And with good cause. Banker Aldrich had read in TIME, May 15: ". . . Of Chase's $30,000,000 first loan [to Cuba], $2,000,000 went into commissions-$500,000 to 'Wood Louse' Obregon" (Jose Emilio Obregon, son-in-law of Cuba's President Machado...
...Newshawk Norton dug up a neighbor who happened to remember the name on the moving van which carted the Sherwood furniture. The moving company was persuaded to open its books, and there was the new address, in East Orange, N. J. under the name of Fuller, a Sherwood brother-in-law. Newshawk Norton hurried to East Orange, watched the Fuller house until he was convinced that the Sherwoods were there, although he caught no glimpse of Sherwood himself. Then City Editor Barrett confided in William Duggan. Collector of Internal Revenue, who, it turned out. had been negotiating...
...other marketable securities" had declined $28,000,000 in book value (TIME, May 8). At the same time, Frank Altschul, chairman of the Stock Exchange List Committee, made public a year-long file of correspondence between his body and Allied Chemical. Mr. Altschul, Lazard Freres partner and brother-in-law to New York's Governor Lehman, had politely and persistently asked for a complete statement of the company's financial setup. Just as persistently and politely the company-that is, Mr. Weber-had refused. The only benefit from such a move, suave Mr. Weber insisted, would fall...
Alexander, onetime Grand Duke of Russia, cousin and brother-in-law of the late Tsar, died in February on the Riviera. In this posthumous book of post-Revolution memoirs he has told, with a cynical eye to U. S. readers, what it felt like to be a Romanoff in exile...