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...Secretary Roper, who was anxious to get the charade over with so the Senate would confirm his fellow-South Carolinian J. Monroe Johnson as the new Assistant Secretary of Commerce, took the stand. To him his ousted assistant was "of an exceedingly suspicious temperament," responsible for "a veritable log jam" in the Department. Said...
Since Adolf Hitler's organs of speech are rated by Nazis the Fatherland's most precious possession, Germans were busy last week setting up a special summer Realmchancellory at famed Bad Reichenhall, No. 1 resort in Germany for the cure of throat ailments, today a boomtown jam-packed with many a recuperating brownshirt Demosthenes...
...workers have been sent down to a steaming sun-baked port where there is hardly a tree, and water is lacking. Many of them came down without sun helmets and still dressed in their heavy European uniforms. All night long these soldiers and workers toil at discharging vessels that jam the harbor. The Italians have learned, at last, to avoid such a task as unloading ships in the day time...
Morgan and his son, Henry Sturgis Morgan, sat on the stand to watch Mrs. Henry Sturgis Morgan christen the new 10,000 ton cruiser Quincy. While the band brayed, airplanes zoomed, crowds cheered, flags waved, schoolchildren sang, a U. S. deputy marshal elbowed his way through the jam and up on the stand, to serve writs in a mysterious $500,000 action against Mr. Morgan...
...held a succession of night conferences with his bondsmen, who were reported ready to renege on their $3,000,000 obligation on the grounds that Sweitzer had filed false information with them. Important Chicago politicians gave no indication of willingness to rescue reputedly penniless Bob Sweitzer from his financial jam although Sweitzer claimed that he had loaned $100,000 of the missing money to "political friends...