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...Governor appointed Neils Hertz. One hour and 15 minutes after Hertz had been sworn in, the three-judge hearing on the rebel jurors' charges was dismissed, on Hertz' motion. The argument: if Byrne is out, why investigate him? After months of work, the jurors were getting close to what may be Louisiana's highest-smelling corruption, the alleged "tax racket," whereby citizens and corporations agreed with tax officials on luscious tax reductions, with the savings split both ways. To terminate the hearing on Byrne's qualifications, thus also terminating the hearing of evidence...
Unless Premier Viacheslav Molotov pulls a dove out of his hat addressing a session of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union this week (an unlikely possibility), the last phase of the peace drive petered to a close last week at Castel Gandolfo, Italy. One after the other the world's Big Men-Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Roosevelt, Chamberlain-had reneged, bungled, excused or disqualified themselves from the job of proposing the one Big Plan the world had spent two months hoping for-a Peace Plan...
...secret among close associates of James Roosevelt and his wife that the couple have not found the harmony they expected since Jimmy's migration to Hollywood. . . . He has been seen in company with Miss Romelle Schneider, the nurse who aided him in his fight to regain his health after an operation at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. . . . It is reported that Mr. Roosevelt will make the first move about getting a divorce...
Purpose of his operation is to prevent this "reverse action" of the sympathetic system, and short-circuit erratic nerve impulses rushing to the heart. After exhaustive study, and drafting of innumerable blueprints, he decided to cut through the third, fourth and fifth ribs close to the spinal column, snip free and short-circuit the four nerves of the sympathetic system (between the second and fifth vertebrae) which lead directly to the heart. With exquisite care Dr. Raney avoided damaging other surrounding tissues, left enough nerves intact so that the patient could feel the "warning signal" of angina. Thus, although free...
Died. John Taylor Adams, 76, taciturn onetime (1921-24) G. 0. P. national committee chairman, close-mouthed campaign manager for Calvin Coolidge; after long illness, in Dubuque, Iowa...