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...graduate of Dartmouth (1920), a Rhodes scholar (law), a post-graduate Harvard law student, Newton's first public job as assistant U.S. attorney was to help dig into a $6,500,000 alien property fraud, come up with such plain facts that President Harding's alien property custodian, Thomas W. Miller, was sent to jail. Later, as special counsel for New York State, he investigated sewer scandals, smashed an arson ring, was named special assistant attorney general...
...Custodian Ickes. The nation, lathered into a rage, waited, not very patiently, for action from Washington. Bluff Harold Ickes, Solid Fuels Coordinator, custodian of all the mines, now John Lewis' last hope, stuck to his desk, plotting his course. His orders were to get coal mined, and he didn't much care how. On Franklin Roosevelt's desk still lay the Connally-Smith-Harness anti-strike bill (he had until June...
...midnight, twelve hours before Prime Minister Winston Churchill marched beaming up the center aisle of the U.S. House to answer the arguments of Senator "Happy" Chandler (see col. 1), Custodian Gus Cook and a squad of Secret Service men began searching the musty labyrinths of the Capitol from top to bottom. They reconnoitered the roof, poked their flashlights around the paper-littered attics over the House chamber, peered under every seat in the chamber itself, combed the cloakrooms, including telephone booths, explored the Speaker's office, the Appropriations Committee rooms, the restaurant, the Sergeant at Arms' office...
Everywhere grey, genial Custodian Cook, veteran of seven inaugurations and countless special appearances, posted guards against bomb, crackpot or assassin. Two were even assigned to the great three-foot air ducts, lest somebody crawl in and loose poison gas to be swept into the House chamber through the vent over the Speaker's chair...
Last week, while Bob McConnell was beaming over Polectron and Promika, politics-an old Aniline bugbear-rose up to plague him. His principal stockholder was scouting around for a new board of directors. The stockholder: Alien Property Custodian Leo Crowley, who owns 97% of Aniline. Talk was that the new board chairman would be Manhattan's razor-smart Victor Emanuel, a director of Standard Gas & Electric, of which versatile Leo Crowley is board chairman...