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...unquestionably typed on the Hisses' Woodstock typewriter; the four notes in Hiss's handwriting, the dates on the documents (the first three months of 1938); the evidence that the typewriter must have been in the Hisses' possession during that time; Chambers' testimony that Hiss had lent him $400 to buy a car in November 1937, and the withdrawal of $400 from Hiss's bank account just a few days before; the Chamberses' detailed accounts of the Hiss homes which the Chamberses said they had visited during those critical years; the Chamberses' onetime maid...
...Back Up. If the MacDonald plans work out in Malaya, the chances are better for his greater plan in Southeast Asia. The Commissioner has organized regional conferences on rice and fisheries, lent out British experts in agriculture, mining and other technical fields. It has cost money. In the past three years Britain has spent ?750 million in southern Asia, including India. British resources are strained, and yet the biggest effort still lies ahead. "It's got to be the real thing," warns MacDonald...
Partridge clears Charles Dickens of all responsibility for the expression "go to the dickens," a Victorian nice-nellyism for "go to the devil." But Dickens' perpetually optimistic Mr. Micawber produced micawberish and the pompous Mr. Bumble lent his name to incompetence forever after. Similarly, a hangman named Derrick is immortalized in hoisting devices, French Physician Joseph Guillotin in a machine which struck him as more humane than the ax, and be-trousered Suffragette Amelia Bloomer in billowing pantalets. It is a process that has never stopped, concludes Partridge happily-from Solon, who became a synonym for lawyer...
Though McCarthy's request has yet to be passed on by RFC, it brought up a thorny problem of Government policy: Should RFC make such loans? The New York World-Telegram and the Sun was ready with a loud no. RFC has already lent $15 million for oil development to the Texmass Petroleum Corp. and, said the Telly, apparently RFC doesn't know that private "oil-country banks have plenty of money to lend ... If it is a good loan, how did the RFC get a chance at it? If it is not a good loan, what does...
...week or ten days out of almost every month he is on a lecture tour. (In the past week he visited Fort Worth, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids and Cleveland.) During Lent, he will preach every day at least once, and sometimes twice...