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...Railroad signed a private bond-selling deal with the potent Wall Street underwriters, Morgan, Stanley & Co. (TIME, Feb. 15). Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission forced Erie to cancel the contract, and to open bidding to all comers. Thus the ICC joined hands with the SEC and the Fed eral Power Commission, both of which four years ago ordered competitive bidding on the sale of utility bonds. But the Commission's action meant more: it set tled for a time Wall Street's old fight over private v. public bond sales...
...Haider's dismissal, said the immediate reason was that last autumn he opposed a proposal to withdraw from Russia and concentrate on an all-out Mediterranean offensive. One change in Nazi command was apparently for merit alone: the Luftwaffe's new fighter chief, 30-year-old Gen eral Adolf Galland, was credited with upward of 100 enemy planes, had won the cherished Knight's Cross, and was now Germany's youngest general...
...Here in the Kraft Music Hall" said Bing, a little short of breath, "we consider ourselves honored to be able to get through to you men in the Philippines with a few tunes, a few wheezes and maybe the gen eral feeling of what's going on here in the States." Madeleine Carroll contributed the sweet (but on Bataan, rather unavailing) information that she was reserving all her dates for service...
...Mudken he saw the Japanese charge a Russian-held hill six times, joined them on the seventh and successful charge. In 1914 he was with Major General Frederick Funston at Veracruz. Disguised as a Mexican bum, he reconnoitered behind Mexican lines, found three locomotives for his gen eral. He remembers this escapade especially because of a young official of the Ger man Embassy who helped him : Franz von Papen...
...will be more power ful than the combined armies of the Axis." The familiar cries of defeatist, appeaser, isolationist, rose shrilly, just as the cries of warmonger had risen after the testimony of the Cabinet officers the week before. Defenders of the bill-Dorothy Thompson. William Bullitt, Major Gen eral John F. O'Ryan-came in with more arguments, all familiar. Ex-Ambassador Bullitt pointed to one difficulty: "The state of mind here today is about what it was in France a year before they en gaged in war with Germany...