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Wilbur Burton Foshay, whose $50,000,000 Northwestern utilities empire ranked second only to Samuel Insult's, was released from Leavenworth Penitentiary after serving five years of a 15-year term for mail fraud, straggled home to Minneapolis to look for a job, had to ask permis-ion to step on the African mahogany floors in his former office in the Foshay Tower. "Rebuild my empire? God. man, how can I?" moaned he. "I haven't a penny. Not one red cent...
...best at different seasons and various stages of the sunspot cycle. Few years ago when many short-wave police radio stations were set up, the ranges were generally limited to 30 or 40 miles, since the signals escaped through the thin ionosphere into outer space. Now, with greater ion density in the upper air, messages for New York City police radio cars sometimes even carry across the Atlantic Ocean...
...Bucharest, Rumania, onetime Sexton Ion Glicherie was arrested for selling space in Heaven to peasants at 16 lei (16?) per square yard...
Thus attacked, King Carol, who has been ruling Rumania under a "state of siege" decree since the assassination of Premier Ion Duca by terrorists who openly made known that "Lupescu is next on our list" (TIME, Jan. 8). took council with Premier George Tatarescu who advised last week that the state of siege must be prolonged for another six months...
...granite-jawed Col. Pricup, Carol's old friend and the man who arranged his flying trip from Paris to Bucharest and the throne in 1930. His henchmen were Rumania's Fascist, Jew-hating Iron Guard. Forty of them had been on trial for the murder of Premier Ion G. Duca last December, had been acquitted. Col. Pricup noted that fact with interest. Carol had not rewarded him nearly enough since 1930. Lupescu intrigued against him. Two months ago he joined the Iron Guard and began organizing the boys...