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Meanwhile 12,000 Germans under Gen eral Graf Rudiger von der Goltz had landed in Finland. They took Hanko for the Whites, moved on to Helsinki, pushing the Reds back toward the Karelian Isthmus. The Whites took Vüpuri, the Reds fled into Russia, and on May 16, 1918, Mannerheim rode into Helsinki in triumph...
...office of the U. S. Attorney Gen eral there rises a mural, full of social significance and figures of ample-bosomed, pensive women. Those great art critics, the Washington correspondents, have never agreed about its social significance, but they are sure that the guy in the right-hand corner is making soft talk to the bare foot woman in pink. One day last week a big crowd of them stood brooding before it when a side door opened and into the room walked Frank Murphy, elevated that morning from the Attorney-Generalship to the Supreme Court of the United States...
Late one afternoon a squadron of British bombers left their North Sea bases and flew toward the German coast. Near Helgo land Bight they sighted, through a thin mist, a German battleship, a cruiser, sev eral destroyers, a submarine. The sub marine opened fire, then submerged. A few minutes later a squadron of Messerschmitt pursuit ships came up. For an exciting half-hour the British were under fire by turns from above and below...
Meantime, WPA, PWA, Congress and the U. S. Department of Justice peered more intently than ever into the use of Federal funds and the status of certain income taxes in Louisiana. Attorney Gen eral Frank Murphy in Washington intimated that he had known for weeks of matters amiss in Baton Rouge. Recently Mr. Murphy accepted an honorary de gree from...
...Caribbean service. Iowa-born, New York-bred. Fourth Authority member is Mormon-born Democrat Robert Hinckley, assistant WPA administrator for Far Western States and supervisor of considerable WPA airport and airway project work. Fifty-year-old Indiana Republican Oswald Ryan, fifth member, has for six years been gen eral counsel to the Federal Power Com mission...