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...shirtsleeves, wearing a white hat and gold-rimmed spectacles. As he walked up to the box office, a man sitting in a parked car at the curb gave a start. Chief Investigator Melvin Purvis of the Department of Justice in Chicago had, for the first time in a four-month manhunt, clapped eyes on Desperado John Dillinger...
...Government made a martyr of Ramon Grau San Martin last January when "garage diplomacy," initiated by U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles, forced him to end his four-month regime in resignation. The youngish (49) bachelor surgeon moped off to Mexico City and exile. His successor as Provisional President, Carlos Mendieta, has played a smart and liberal game but has not erased the memory of martyred Grau from the minds of Cuba's lower classes. Still practically ungovernable, they believe in Grau. Last week 100,000 of them, students, workmen, Negroes, sailors, swarmed around the docks in Havana Harbor...
Last week for the first time the U.S. Government hired the services of a commercial advertising agency. The Tennessee Valley Authority made a four-month contract for the services of Young & Rubicam for a fee of $10,000. Several months ago TVA started to find customers for the power it generates at Muscle Shoals. Later it formed Electric Home & Farm Authority to finance instalment sales of electric apparatus to valley dwellers. An advertising campaign was the next step...
Having plowed through no less than 60 industrial agreements affecting the work and wages of 11,000,000 people, NRA last week completed its four-month shakedown cruise. Result of the shakedown was a re-organization of NRA into five permanent branches: Extractive Industries (including motors and shipping); Construction & Machinery (including lumber and metal products); Chemicals, Leather & Other Manufactures; Trades. Services, Textiles & Clothing. Each now has its own administrator, who acts as a deputy to General Johnson. General Johnson personally takes over the fifth department: Compliance. Structure of the Compliance Board is based on 26 district officers of the Department...
...Manhattan the American Museum of Natural History's President Frederick Trubee Davison, onetime Assistant Secretary of War for Air, was preparing to sail for a four-month African hunting trip with Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson. Commissioned by his curators to bring back, among other specimens, four medium-sized young elephant bulls or cows, he said: "I haven't the slightest desire to shoot an elephant. ... I hate to think of killing one of those magnificent animals...