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Died. Sir Patrick Duncan, 72, Governor General of the Union of South Africa since 1937; of cancer; in Pretoria. A grey-thatched, firm-lipped Scot, Duncan studied at Oxford's Balliol College, became a barrister of the Inner Temple, entered colonial service in 1894. He rose to be Minister...
From his home on Staten Island (where the F.B.I, arrested him this week) Spy Lehmitz kept close tabs on ship movements in New York harbor, picked up more information in bars from loose-lipped soldiers and sailors. To report all this in letters to Nazi agents in Zurich and Lisbon...
([Later]: More than 1,000 Jap bodies have been buried in one day, mostly by the troops who had slain them. Men who had killed Japs calmly and efficiently, who had picked up their own dead with tight-lipped calm, vomited as they collected the bodies of the enemy.)
Winston Churchill returned home last week to face a labor crisis. Directly challenging the Trade Disputes Act of 1927 (enacted soon after the 1926 general strike), the Union of Post Office Workers last fortnight applied, and was promptly accepted, for affiliation with the British Trades Union Congress. The Trade Disputes...
Only one man could finally answer that question-and he was tight-lipped with grief. But there are few problems Henry Ford has not foreseen. Wall Street, which Henry Ford hates obsessively, rubbed its hands at the prospect of enormous fees if the family-held stock should be sold to...