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...question which was still puzzling police last week was whether or not the most widely sought criminal in U. S. history had had an accomplice. The Department of Justice was inclined to think the Lindbergh kidnapping was a one-man job. But a "mystery woman" was said to be sought as well as a "mystery man" whom Col. Lindbergh had seen with a handkerchief over his face near The Bronx cemetery the night the ransom was passed. Also implicated was the brokerage house with which Hauptmann was said to have a $25,000 account...
General Johnson's uneasy exit from the NRA as the one-man power has overshadowed the revelation Saturday that Lewis Dembitz Brandeis, Justice of the Supreme Court, has been one of his advisors. As Frank Kent points out, those who have been looking for the mind which has shaped important measures feel that they have found their answer. For Mr. Justice Brandeis, formerly a showed Boston lawyer, has at least offered advice to the Administration and may have played a leading role...
...annual art show. Opening day, Painter George Glenn Newell's cow picture Clear and Cold had the best place. Furious, Artist Wilson tore down the cow picture, hung up his own. Hour later the cow picture was back. Portraitist Wilson, with canvas, rushed away, opened a competing one-man one-picture show in an empty 18-room house, challenged Cow Painter Newell to a duel with canvas and brush, promised a $100,000 suit...
...protest that it is not freedom of the press to suppress or garble important news which happens not to be in accord with some editorial policy or opinion. , . . That is domination of the press and when it is practiced by a great chain of newspapers under one-man control it becomes a public menace.? ... I wish the newspapers would submit a code containing provisions which would leave elimination of such practices to their own self-governing bodies. They are the only industry that has declined...
Lone dissenter was James H. Doolittle, onetime Army Air Corps major, who in a one-man minority report wrote: "I am convinced that the required air force can be more rapidly organized, equipped and trained if it is completely separated from the Army and developed as an entirely separate arm." Failing this. "Jimmy" Doolittle urged that at least the Army Air Corps should be removed from control of the General Staff. To this a majority of the committee retorted: "The committee is not greatly impressed with the validity of the several imputations against the General Staff. Control is always repressive...