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...American home." ¶Two Congressmen introduced a bill proposing 1) that the U.S. build a $2,500,000 house for its Vice President, and 2) pending construction of the new mansion, house him in dignified old Blair House, now used to accommodate foreign visitors. Blair House's longtime custodian, Mrs. Victoria Geaney, protested with vigor. "Visitors from other lands go away from here feeling really friendly," said she. "They never again think of us Americans as a bunch of barbarians...
...sale a majority interest in American Bosch Corp., maker of ignition and fuel-injection devices. The German-controlled company was first taken over by the U.S. during World War I and later sold. Somehow it got back into German hands. In 1942 the Office of Alien Property Custodian seized 77% (some 535,000) of its outstanding shares as enemy property. This time the stock will be sold, at competitive bidding, to U.S. citizens only. Any shares that get into the hands of aliens will automatically become invalid...
...this might have gone unnoticed if Marks and Littell had not complained so after the Office of Alien Property Custodian seized Hyalsol in 1943. Marks and Littell were left in charge. The matter might have ended there if the pair had not sued OAP in 1946 for the return of the company. Then the Government dug deeper and came up with the indictment...
After a military victory that Hitler demanded but didn't get, Metropolitan Basso Alexander Kipnis and Cousin Leonid, who had bought negatives of the film from the U.S. Alien Property Custodian, made a distribution deal with United Artists. Last week, under the title Kings of the Olympics, Leni's work began its first general U.S. showing. Leni would scarcely recognize her handiwork...
...Mexican who was unmoved by such warnings was swarthy, cigar-chomping Arturo Quiroz. As custodian of the 16-story National Lottery building, Mexico City's only floating skyscraper, he had only to transfer water from one to another of the four great ballast tanks beneath his building, then keep her steady as she went. Said he: "We'll ride it down. Everybody should be doing the same...