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...articles," pored over books in the Naval Library. When a high-ranking officer's wife reported that he had urged her to show him certain Naval documents, G-Men joined Naval Intelligence agents in shadowing him. In May 1935, it was charged, he borrowed a U. S. Navy handbook entitled The Service of Information and Security, had it photo-stated, sold the copy to a member of the Japanese Embassy in Washington. This book, first published in 1916 and since revised, was, the Navy Department insisted, exclusively for responsible officers. Divulgence of its contents, officials implied, might necessitate...
...second publication will be a "Harvard University Handbook" containing 225 pages of "detailed description of the University grounds, buildings, libraries, and the contents of all the museums with many illustrations, and notes, on the history, development, and activities of all the Harvard departments...
...little office. There he, with an assistant and a half-dozen stenographers, besides publishing Private Schools, personally tells parents where to find schools, teachers where to find work, trustees where to find headmasters. He also places school advertising in magazines as well as in the rear of his yearly handbook...
...Coming American Boom, a breezy contribution to U. S. economics which sold 27,000 copies at $1.50 each. Next was Inflation Ahead by Willard Kiplinger and Frederick Shelton, which sold 71,000 copies, at $1. The third Simon & Schuster pamphlet was Your Income Tax, a slapdash $1 handbook offered agitated taxpayers about a month before the last Federal income tax deadline. That sold 79,000. Last week another $1 yellow pamphlet appeared called The Coming Boom in Real Estate by Roy Wenzlick...
...GARDEN DICTIONARY-edited by Norman Taylor - Houghton Mifflin ($16.25). In the 900 pages of this handbook the winter-emerging gardener will find the answers to all his vernal questions. Beautifully illustrated, carefully indexed...