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According to Hiss, "Crosley" was a free-lance writer who had come to him when he was an investigator for the Nye Committee (which investigated the munitions industry during 1934 and 1935). Crosley had asked for help and material in preparing a series of articles. The next summer, Hiss went on, he had sublet his apartment to Crosley, since he had already moved into a house on Georgetown's P Street. Because Crosley also needed a car, said Hiss, he made his old Ford a part of the deal...
...that, there seemed to be no record of any free-lance writer who used the name of George Crosley. Committee investigators, thumbing through old Washington files, could find no evidence that a lease had ever been made out to him. There was no title in his name for the Hiss car. Hiss himself admitted that he had never seen any of Crosley's articles (although Chambers had been writing regularly under his own name for the New Masses, where his picture appeared...
...ordinary methods of treatment. After two to four weeks' treatment (five to 14 grams of PAS a day) all 22 were "completely or almost completely" cured of abdominal symptoms. Pain disappeared completely. The general condition of 19 improved; two became worse. One died, but even he was free from pain the last months of his life. The original TB of the lungs improved in eight patients. U.S. comment was cautious: it was "too early" to jump to conclusions...
...corner. The charges, he insisted, "can only be characterized as false and malicious. They provide the final proof that the commission has completely become the tool of our Wall Street rivals, already facing anti-trust proceedings, whose business we have steadily been taking away by our honest, but unwelcome, free competition...
...story of Margy Shannon of Maujer Street, the plainly dressed, neatly combed daughter of a factory worker, of her loves, job and marriage, the tragedy of her life (her child is born dead), and the beginning of her separation from her husband. It is so flatly written and so free of melodrama (or even of exciting incidents) that its interest is surprising-without plot and without particular distinction in its prose, with characters who seem merely to have wandered on the scene, it is nevertheless absorbing...