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Proved by photographs was the tapping of Mrs. McCormick's telephone line near her farm at Byron, Ill. Undisputed was the fact that her confidential records had been searched and pilfered. Last month the Senate Committee held hearings at Chicago at which Mrs. McCormick and her political counsel, Attorney General Oscar E. Carlstrom of Illinois, offered to submit what they claimed was proof that Committee agents had a hand in these melodramatic antics. Chairman Nye, after questioning his agents privately and convincing himself of their probity, categorically denied Mrs. McCormick's "slanderous insinuations," refused to hear her evidence...
...candidate. Her listed spendings: $252,000. Subsequently it was discovered that some $67,000 had also been spent in her behalf, bringing the total up to $319,000. The Senate committee, suspicious of such outlay, began its own investigation. While they investigated, Mrs. McCormick's office at Byron, Ill. was broken open and her private files ransacked. A woman was found hiding in the closet of her hotel suite in Chicago after a campaign conference there. Her telephone wires were tapped. She assumed that the Senate investigation was responsible. She marched into the W. C. Dannenberg Detective Agency...
Help, too, may come from such Old Boys as: Paul Starrett, Manhattan contractor; John Villiers Farwell, Chicago financier, Yale trustee; Hopewell Lindenberger Rogers, onetime treasurer of the Chicago Daily News; Walter Byron Smith, director of Illinois Tool Works; President Henry Willis Phelps of American Can Co.; Frederick Tudor Haskell, director Continental Illinois Bank & Trust...
...photography is only fair, but the material itself is so fascinating that Lost Gods becomes one of the best current illustrations of the educative function of the cinema. It is a record of the expedition, supervised by the Algiers Museum, of the travels in Libya of Archeologist Count Byron Khun de Prorok, whose excavations are made conceivable to non- archeological audiences by the explanation that he is looking for the golden tomb of the White Goddess of the Sahara. Some of the things his camera sees are "the Wall Street of Carthage," a bleak row of empty stone buildings; amphitheatres...
...correspondent, whose name is withheld because he is very close to Yale, suggests a number of questions which would be fair to sophomores. They seem to give the mind a chance. for instance, "Show in what way each of the following men represented their era: Milton, Pope, Fielding, Byron. And "Compare the viewpoints of Bacon, Milton and Byron on marriage." Show how Milton justifies the ways of God to man." Give six devices by which Milton enhances his grand style." "Discuss Milton's cosmology or his conception of the Deity.'" These are a few of the questions, but they, seem...