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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fitzpatrick's first plan of attack is to telephone the hotel or house where the party is being held and question some one in authority as to its worth. He explained that his order of interrogations over the telephone was usually: "Well, how does the party look tonight? How many people are there? Are they serving champagne? And caviar? And how do the women look--pretty good...
Gabriel Welles, art collector, presented Harvard with the original manuscript of Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward Angel" which he purchased for $1700 at an action staged by the League of American Writers for the benefit of the Spanish Loyalists...
...Police found on one suspect a copy of what Scotland Yard officials called the '"S-Plot" or secret instruction issued by the I. R. A. Main points: Sabotage Britain's industrial life, join Britain's civilian defense corps to "look respectable," gain access to wartime supply depots, raise hell...
Thereupon last week's look-see into insurance began to diverge from the Armstrong pattern of 33 years ago. The Armstrong Commission was primarily interested in insurance by itself; the Monopoly Committee is out to survey "the economic power inherent in the vast investment funds controlled by insurance companies. . . ." Today the largest 49 legal reserve companies hold 11% of the U. S. debt, 9.9% of all outstanding municipal bonds, 22.9% of all railroad bonds, 22% of the public utility debt, 15% of the industrial debt, 14.5% of urban mortgages. The Metropolitan alone now invests...
...made friends with his music; he disdained to hear Mozart's operas "lest I forfeit some of my originality." "I want none of your moral (precepts)," he once wrote, "for Power is the morality of men who loom above the others, and it is also mine." "I look upon them (mankind) only as instruments upon which I play when I feel so disposed. . ." And yet, "O ye men who thinks or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do ye wrong me; you do not know the secret causes of my seeming...