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...insurance against a rise in the income tax. Lloyd's alone lost over $500,000. The only people who see Britain's Budget before it is announced in Commons are high Treasury officials and members of the Cabinet, and Britain takes care that Cabinet secrets shall not leak out accidentally. Far from the least important official in Whitehall is a character known as the Confidential Waste Man. A trusted secret service employe, it is his duty to empty every Government trash-basket in Whitehall, burn the contents himself...
...Britain believed that some Cabinet Member was responsible for last month's Budget leak. Three years ago when the British Government took over the defaulted bonds of Newfoundland, there was a similar leak which made fortunes on Newfoundland bonds for a favored few. Among the biggest plungers then was the brokerage house of Belisha & Co., whose senior partner is the uncle of Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha. A potent partner in Belisha & Co. is Leslie Thomas, son of dumpy James Henry Thomas, Britain's Secretary of State for the Colonies. One of the first facts discovered about...
...Next day Chancellor Chamberlain told the Commons that he had asked the great underwriting house of Lloyds to investigate rumors of a leak. Whether on inside information or guesswork, last-minute gamblers were supposed to have collected some $500,000 of insurance against last week's budget increases...
...told us he had been forced down by a leak in the gas tank. . . . His legs and arms were broken in the crash, but medicine men cured him. . . . He had married an Indian woman and has a son who looks very much like him. When the Indians suspected we intended to take Paul away they threatened us with poisonous spears and arrows and on Paul's advice we withdrew . . . with the intention of returning. It must be realized that any rescue must mean the use of force with probable death of Redfern...
...morning in local papers, President Conant has not asked Ernst F. S. Hanfstaengl '09 to contribute to the 300th Anniversary Fund, thus re-opening the controversy over the Corporation's refusal of a $1000 travelling fellowship made by Hitler's aide in October 1934. Hanfstaengl allowed the news to leak out Friday night that he was written a letter to President Conant, and although University Hall denied all knowledge of the matter, it was thought that the letter would be laid on the President's desk today...