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...from Detroit's F. L. Jacobs Co., a holding company, while it was under Guterma controls. To conceal the losses, he set up dummy corporations. Guterma and Eveleigh also withheld information from stockholders, obtained loans on stocks whose value was artificially maintained, even asked a prosecution witness to plead the Fifth Amendment after their trial began. Both men were held without bail pending sentencing Feb. 17. In prison Guterma could only look forward to more of the same. On his agenda: trials on charges of conspiracy in connection with two other companies...
Haughton canceled the Christmas leaves of all his 120 detectives and police, set up loudspeakers at football matches to plead for help, assigned some men to ride all No. 8 buses for any information they might pick up. By Sunday, four days after the murder, police had heard from only one passenger. "A busload of shame!" cried the Daily Herald...
...much of the time was spent in translations. De Gaulle and Macmillan had 45 minutes together one afternoon; they discussed tariffs. Macmillan had asked for a breakfast session with Ike at the U.S. embassy residence, but learning in advance that the U.S. would give him what he intended to plead for, Macmillan and Ike talked golf...
...better are the sentimental exchanges between Dr. Cornish and the young woman he loves. As his own director, Playwright Schary has only stressed what seems wooden or hammy. In neither capacity is he aware that there is an art to preaching, or that those who plead a cause should themselves seem human...
...Load of Coal. After the U.S. got into World War II, Symington set out to make gun turrets for U.S. bombers. During the harried months of the switchover at Emerson, with the Air Corps' General "Hap" Arnold calling him up to plead for "just one turret, just one," Symington worked around the clock. When exhaustion dragged at him, he flopped on a cot in his office. When he woke up, often in the middle of the night, he went back to work. General Arnold got turrets aplenty...