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Chief witnesses for the prosecution were members of the crew Hoppy had taken with him on his high-buccaneering through A. G. & E.'s uncharted archipelagos. Mostly stenographers and clerks (some of whom had been raised to figurehead officials and directors), they pieced out the odyssey between them. They told how Howard Hopson had once netted $2,000,000 from selling parts of a $63,000,000 bond issue back & forth between member companies via a $10,000,000 rubber check (TIME, May 20); how operating companies had to pay two salaries for each of many employes...
Last week Bertrand Russell (Earl Russell in England) found a roost. His U. S. odyssey had taken him to University of California at Los Angeles, where he taught last year, to Harvard, where he lectures this autumn, and to the College of the City of New York, where his appointment raised a storm. When a Tammany judge last spring ruled that his "salacious attitude toward sex" disqualified him to teach at C. C. N. Y. (TIME, April 8), U. S. men of learning deplored the New World's inhospitality to one of the world's original minds. Last...
...returned to college then, began immediately to serve the Allies in any capacity which he could fill. His jobs ranged from machine gunner in a Finish bombing plane to translator in the French bureau of North American Propaganda, and he ended his year's career with an amazing Odyssey which carried him through Norway, Sweden, Germany, Italy, and German-occupied France before he arrived at Lisbon and the Atlantic Clipper...
Accompanying Trotsky in his weary Odyssey from Russia through Turkey, Scandinavia, and ultimately to Mexico, the boxes and dossiers of documents had an interesting history. Apparently certain items are still in war-torn Europe, and while it is hoped that they may eventually wend their way to the Treasure Room, copies of the originals are believed to be included among the new Harvard acquisitions...
...relies. In seven years the make up of that group has changed several times. In 1933 it centred on Raymond Moley, in 1935 Rexford Guy Tugwell was one of its leading figures, and Corcoran and Cohen were in the ascendant. As the President sets out on his Third Term odyssey, the complexion of the group has changed again...