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Thus the Dictator can hope other Russian bigwigs who might want to kill him have now been made to realize that such impulses lead, via the secret police, into the court cheering section for Stalin, thence down into the cork-lined cellars where this week the 18 were due to be noiselessly executed. Rozengolts' protestation that his children are loud in the Stalin chorus may save them, but the piece of consecrated bread may well mean death for his wife. Nothing was known last week, nothing is ever published, about the fate of members of the families...
...editors were disturbed by jovial Christopher Morley coming to call on the Saturday Review's editors (Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, Amy Loveman, William Rose Benét), bringing his welcome in the form of a bottle of whiskey which he opened by pounding on a desk until its cork came...
General Michael Collins was on a tour of inspection of Army barracks in the South of Ireland. He rode in an open touring car and was accompanied by a Rolls-Royce whippet armored car as escort. At Beal-Na- Blath, County Cork, he was ambushed. He immediately ordered his men to return the fire and led the attack on the ambushers personally. During the melee he was fatally wounded and died before he could be removed from the scene. His body was taken to Shanakil Hospital and a guard placed around it. It afterwards came to light that...
...Ferguson Co. of New York and Cleveland has built plants for such firms as General Foods, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, General Electric, U. S. Gypsum, Armstrong Cork. When new building dried up six months ago it sent out 2,200 questionnaires to executives in all types of industry except railways and utilities. Last week it announced that 275 firms, of which only 25 were big, had admitted holding up nearly $200,000,000 worth of industrial construction. Reasons given: 72% blamed the undistributed profits tax, most of the rest blamed uncertainty over Government policies, a negligible few feared labor troubles...
...vacated by Stanley Reed's appointment to the Supreme Court. Bob Jackson accepted on the understanding he would be allowed to name his own successor as chief trustbuster to the Department of Justice. But he accepted against the advice of his good & liberal friend, Brain-truster Thomas ("The Cork") Corcoran. For Attorney General Cummings and other Administration Right-wingers the Jackson appointment was a notable victory. Mr. Cummings has never seen eye to eye with his able young subordinate on the subject of trust busting. Indeed, Bob Jackson once threatened to resign but the Attorney General told...