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...Littleboro, Lancashire, the countryside tells a century of cotton history. There are the old cottages, where women used to hand out woven cloth to merchants on horseback in return for more yarn to weave into more cloth. There is the 100-year-old red brick mill, which Cuthbert Barwick Clegg's grandfather built to replace cottage industry, and where he prospered. (Now a third of its 1,500 prewar workers rattle around in the big weaving rooms among many idle looms.) There is the big grey stone house, built by Grandfather Clegg, now too big for Cuthbert to staff...
Double Take. In Philadelphia, Mrs. Naomi Clegg lost her purse and door-key to a bag snatcher, wondered how she would get in, arrived home to find the door wide open, the place looted...
Hats Off. In Detroit, Mrs. M. Clegg's advertisement of an electrolytic depilatory announced that it would "permanently and safely" remove "unsightly hats...
...Attorney General Robert Jackson created a "national defense investigation unit" within the Federal Bureau of Investigation, put stern, jut-jawed Veteran Agent Hugh H. Clegg in charge. Jackson also recommended legislation to require the registration of all firearms. > The Civil Service Commission announced it would no longer certify for employment proven members of "the Communist Party, the German Bund, or any other Communist or Nazi organization...
Preceding Hildegarde in the list of entertainers, G-Man Hugh H. Clegg related some of the more daring deeds of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and described the work of Edgar Hoover's public-enemy-snatching machinery in Washington...