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...theatre of political war, the bantering of accusation and counteraccusation, quietly in a Chicago Federal Court, Judge George A. Carpenter set the date for the trial of Charles R. Forbes, former Director of the Veterans' Bureau. Forbes was indicted with a Chicago contractor, John W. Thomson (TIME, Mar. 17), for conspiracy to defraud the Government in connection with the making of contracts for the construction of Veterans' hospitals. Ex -Senator James Hamilton Lewis,* representing the defendants, asked that the trial be postponed until after the election because all Parties, for political purposes, were now demanding Forbes' conviction...
...Treasury Department report-ed that, without the filing of claims, 1,723,000 refunds, totaling $12,989,000, have been made to those who paid their full income tax on Mar. 15 and subsequently became entitled to a 25% reduction. As Government efficiency goes, this is a good record...
Morgan Loan. During the past week, the loan made to France at the time of the franc's collapse (TiME, Mar. 17) by John P. Morgan, was renewed for six months...
...choice was said to have fallen upon Tokichi Tanaka, whilom Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, whilom Counselor of Embassy at the Washington Embassy, whilom Consul at Seattle. But Eki Hioki, once Japanese Ambassador to Germany, and Tsunso Matsudaira, a subminister in the present Cabinet, were also mentioned as mar ketable diplomats...
...March, President Rafael Lopez Gutierrez died. His term of office had expired on Feb. 1, but he had kept himself in office by establishing a dictatorship. Immediately after the President's demise, Generals Arias and Bueso seized power and constituted themselves dictators (TIME, Mar. 31). Thereupon Generals Tiburcio Carias and Gregorio Ferrera joined forces, wacked the dictators...