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With Secretary Morgenthau hunting a homeward boat from Oslo, Secretary of State Hull vacationing in White Sulphur Springs, Postmaster General Farley in Paris, Attorney General Murphy in Narragansett, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins motoring in New England-and with Franklin Roosevelt in fog at sea (see p. 9)-these two politically young men (Hanes, 47; Welles, 46) last week met a war crisis full face...
...Raleigh, N. C., a Negro servant named Eugene was told by his master to guard his car, stayed faithfully in it four days and three nights. Meantime his master forgot where he had parked, concluded Eugene had run off, stalked darkly homeward after notifying the police...
...Homeward bound on the Pennsylvania one night, an idea struck him. In the arid west, where the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation has for years provided water and sometimes generated power as a byproduct, Bond & Share units have bought this public power and transmitted it to their own customers over their own lines. Why could not Bond & Share keep Bonneville and Grand Coulee from building transmission lines by the same means? Why not buy their power and distribute it, dovetailing public power plants with private transmission lines and private meters...
...paupers in Westchester County Home near Elmsford, N. Y. were Frederick Rupt, 75, and John Doyle, 70. From their tiny allowances they saved money for a spree, one night last week walked into an Elmsford tavern, split a dozen cans of beer. Near 1 a.m. they were rolling homeward, Frederick Rupt favoring his wooden right leg. They fell afighting and when Frederick Rupt clumped away, John Doyle was lying by the road. Somebody's fist, said a doctor, had fractured his skull, killed him. Frederick Rupt was jailed for manslaughter...
...week they neatly got around their difficulty. Accepting the Government's explanation that the invitation had been withdrawn, not for political reasons, but only because a new convention hall had not been completed, they decided to go to Rio for their fun, hold their meetings afterward on the homeward cruising S. S. Rotterdam...