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With $900,000,000 worth of properties scattered from Staten Island to the Philippines and owned through a maze of 172 companies capped by Associated Gas & Electric, Mr. Hopson's problem was as tough as any. For all these 172 companies, the law allows Mr. Hopson only two corporate baskets, and all actual operating properties must be grouped in two geographic chunks...
...Britain's Ambassador to China, Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, set out from Hong Kong to have a talk with Chiang Kaishek. That is not an easy thing to do nowadays. Sir Archibald had to hire an airplane, fly five or six hundred miles inland over a maze of twisting rivers and search out the Generalissimo "somewhere in Hunan Province...
...short-wave radiation, Dr. Hughbert Clayton Hamilton of Philadelphia's Temple University tried heating rats. Last week he described his experiment to the American Psychological Association meeting at Columbus, Ohio. He divided the rats into two groups of 21 each, sent each group through a U-shaped maze once a day for 100 days. Every animal in the first group was subjected to short-wave radiation for two minutes, before each of the first 45 trials. Then temperatures were raised from 99.5 to 103 or 104.5° F. No radiation was given this group for the remaining 55 trials...
Captain Dollar died in 1932 and his son, R. (for Robert) Stanley, fat, red, fiftyish, took over. Trained in the Dollar lumber camps, R. Stanley had a hard time figuring out the financial maze his father had managed so shrewdly. He got help from Herbert and Mortimer Fleishhacker and their Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco. Straightway, the Dollar maze got mazier. Criss-crossed family corporations were set up, existing companies expanded. Soon the Dollar Line owed Anglo California some $3,000,000; and of the Dollar stock, the Fleishhackers owned 109,000 shares, the Dollars...
...maze of charges and countercharges made by Messrs. Morgan. Morgan & Lilienthal are being delved into by a joint committee headed by Ohio's industrious, gum-chewing Senator Vic Donahey, with $50,000 to spend (TIME, June 6). Because Vic Donahey knows he is not a born inquisitor like such famed Senators as Black, Wheeler, Nye, La Follette and the late Tom Walsh, his committee last week retained a paid inquisitor just as the Senate's Wall Street investigation in 1933-34 hired Lawyer Ferdinand Pecora. The TVA committee's choice: Francis Biddle, 52, a Philadelphia lawyer...