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...writer on foreign affairs of the Stalin official press. It was as if Walter Lippmann or the late Arthur Brisbane or the New York Times's Arthur Krock should be in the dock of the Supreme Court at Washington, about to be rubbed out by the G-men because the President was no longer quite happy about Mr. Krock. Old Bolsheviks- Dictator Stalin is no longer quite happy about the following most eminent Soviet Comrades, in addition to Comrade Radek, who sat jammed in the Moscow dock before the fascinated eyes of new U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies...
...more morbid diversion called Jury Box to be the major new rivals to contract bridge for 1937. Trend in U. S. games demonstrated by both Bulls & Bears and Jury Box is realism, which recurs in parlor sports at 30-year intervals. Monopoly, based on real-estate tradings, and G-men, invented by onetime G-Man Melvin Purvis, were the first non-escapist parlor sports since just after the turn of the Century when Bunco and Pit, based on Chicago's wheat trading, were highly fashionable. Bulls & Bears, played on a parcheesi-like board, concerns stock purchases, pools, dividends...
...prison, traced and identified in court the Lindbergh ransom money. His assistant will be Joseph Edward Murphy, who was Chief Moran's aide until last summer when he got himself, his department and Secretary Morgenthau into an intra-Cabinet snarl by setting Secret Servants on the trail of G-Men suspected of murdering criminals without giving them a chance to surrender (TIME...
...somehow connected with the kidnapping and perpetrated by someone, perhaps a former patient, bearing a grudge. Dr. Mattson was unable to think of anyone whom he had offended. With no clues at hand as to whether the kidnapper escaped by automobile or by boat across Commencement Bay, police and G-Men backed off the case for several days to allow Dr. Mattson to carry out Tim's instructions...
...last week's end when a third advertisement was inserted. It read: "Mable-We have received your communications. Police have not intercepted them. Channels are entirely clear. Your instructions will be followed. We are ready-Ann." With snow and subfreezing temperatures descending on the Northwest, police and G-Men, fearing for the safety of young Charles, who was lightly clothed and wearing bedroom slippers, reentered the case in earnest. From Washington Chief J. Edgar Hoover of the F. B. I. sent his chief assistant, Harold Nathan, to take charge...