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Died. Truman Handy Newberry, 80, Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt, 1918 Senatorial victor over fellow-industrialist Henry Ford; after long illness; in Grosse Pointe, Mich. Following his photo-finish victory over Democratic Candidate Henry Ford, he was convicted of too-lavish electioneering, then exonerated, by Supreme Court reversal of a lower court decision; ten months after he was finally granted the Senate seat, he resigned it, promptly vanished from public life...
Thirty years ago Italian-born Gabriella Besanzoni was one of the world's topflight Carmens (La Scala). Then she married Brazil's millionaire banker and industrialist. Henrique Lage. In Rio, Madame Lage held sway at smart soirees, horsed her way into Brazilian society's front ranks...
...list had no glaring omissions, with the possible exception of Field Marshal Alfred Kesselring and Industrialist Fritz von Thyssen. Industrialist Gustav Krupp von Bohlen was there, and so were Militarists Keitel, Jodl, Raeder and Doenitz. There were Financiers Funk and Schacht, ex-Foreign Ministers von Neurath and von Ribbentrop and the cloak-&-dagger diplomat, Franz von Papen; there were names once famous in the Nazi hierarchy -Hess and Streicher, Ley and Rosenberg, and Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart (Netherlands) and von Schirach (Austria). And along with the familiar names were others: Sauckel, the slave-herder; Hans Fritzsche, the propagandist; ex-Interior Minister...
Senator Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo, lagging some five years behind Pittsburgh Industrialist Samuel Harden Church, proposed a million-dollar reward for the capture of Hitler, whose death he doubted. Church and some other well-heeled Pittsburghers had put up their own money; Bilbo had taxpayers' money in mind...
...smart, energetic industrialist from St. Louis, W. Stuart Symington III. moved in as the new boss of the Surplus Property Board this week. Thereby he took on one of the toughest administrative jobs in Washington-the disposal of roughly $90 billion of surplus war property held by the Government (TIME, June...