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...first week, the Government spent most of last week plodding through the maze of Andrew Mellon's security portfolios, brokerage accounts, private ledgers, holding companies, in an effort to prove that by juggling his securities among them he had fraudulently established the losses which he claimed in his 1931 tax return (TIME, March 4). All facts & figures came from Mr. Mellon's longtime private secretary, Howard M. Johnson, a frail, grey little man seated pale and trembling behind a stack of ledgers and account books. In the handsome, high-ceilinged courtroom, with only a scattering of typical courtroom...
...period, as Professor Haring describes it, is so twisted a maze of civil warfare and international dispute that condensation of the story has been very difficult. Wisely the author has confined himself to a survey of only the more important nations, such as the A B C powers, with more detailed investigations into such major issues as the control of the Rio de in Plat and the balance of power on the Pacific coast...
...cease and desist from doing so in future. Before making the request, Presidential Secretary Stephen T. Early called up Alcohol Administrator Choate and found that use of the picture had not been "authorized." called up Attorney General Cummings to ask whether Schenley could not be prosecuted. In all the maze of New Deal laws the Attorney General could find none that entitled him to sue the distillers for their deed...
...EYES OF DEATH-John Bentley- Crime Club ($2). Introducing Sophisticate Richard Herrivell Bart, antiquarian, who suavely guides blunt Chief Inspector Barton through the psychological maze left by a brutal, clever murderer...
...idea was put into effect as a result of injuries and near injuries which kept the residents of Wigglesworth in a state of continuous terror last winter. The steam outlets have been made through the roof by removing the slate, drilling until steam was struck in the maze of attic pipes, connecting the copper tube, and covering the hole in the roof again...