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When Trust Buster Thurman Arnold last fall fixed a glittering eye on the railroads, he charged that they, through the Railway Express Agency Inc., were controlling and hindering the development of air express on U.S. airlines...
...essential war industries, striking out for his ideal of free pricing. The Army & Navy began to complain of his robust interference. Thurman Arnold went right ahead building up a case against railroads for rate fixing; Attorney General Francis Biddie turned thumbs down. Arnold's ride as a trust buster was over...
...Caribbean has been cleaned up sufficiently to justify sending Rear Admiral James L. ("Sub Buster") Kauffman last week to a hotter, undisclosed area of command...
...proprietor of Rick's Cafè Americain (Humphrey Bogart, so tough that at one moment he looks like Buster Keaton playing Paul Gauguin). A strictly cynical neutral, Rick likes to snarl: "I stick my neck out fer nobuddy...
...Buster") Haley is a Negro convict who may never get out (he got a life sentence in 1932 for murder), but he is a war worker, too. Recently he wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt: "I told him he was just about the best man there is excepting the warden. I told him I wanted to see my boys. My boys are in the Army and I figured they was going to send my boys over the sea. President Roosevelt wrote back and said he'd have the Adjutant General look into it. An' now my boys...