Word: indirectness
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Last week's indictment was an indirect result of Torrio's arrest in 1936. Evidence dragged out of 100 reluctant witnesses by United States Attorney Lamar Hardy indicated that in 1933, Torrio's income was $150,000, that Prendergast Davies (now in other hands) had done a $4,500,000 business in 1934. Chief of Johnny Torrio's current associates appeared to be a brother-in-law named William Slock-bower. Said Mrs. Slockbower to reporters: "We never expected anything like this . . . I'm sure it's going to be a terrible surprise...
...PROFITS OF WAR-Richard Lewin-sohn-Button ($3). A Frenchman's lucid survey of war profiteering since Caesar's day. Henceforth, he concludes, taking the profits out of war means eliminating indirect business profits: munitions-makers are already subdued to where they do not want war, only a precarious peace...
...disposed than ever toward the Spanish Leftists, and this week official London was considering whether it may be "obliged by circumstances" to grant the Rightists diplomatic recognition. 2) The panic in Soviet Russia over wholesale "treason" and the shaky position of the French franc (see p. 17) were major indirect factors working against the Spanish Leftists. 3) Mr. Chamberlain's speech gave the impression that he thought Mussolini & Hitler were right, from their points of view, in thinking that now was the time, before Britain has completed her rearmament, to throw heavier forces into Spain and try to secure...
...hunt for rich tax dodgers launched so suddenly by him and Franklin Roosevelt early this month (TIME, June 14). The hunt meet was not in the customary inquisition chamber, the Senate's barnlike caucus room, but in the House Ways & Means Committeeroom, which has much better acoustics, handsome indirect lighting, and comfortable chairs of green-blue leather. On the long bench were little placards identifying the committeemen for the audience. In the centre sat old Representative Bob Doughton of Laurel Springs, N. C., chairman of the joint committee, his bald dome almost as bright as his Palm Beach suit...
Scientists have believed for some time that Cambrian animal life, as revealed in existing fossils, must have depended on land plants for part of their diet. But such indirect evidence for the existence of vegetable forms has never before been confirmed by finding the remains of the plants themselves...