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...began to look inevitable, Leo Cherne persuaded Louis Johnson, then Assistant Secretary of War, to let him spend six weeks in the War Department digging up facts for an M-Day book, Adjusting Your Business to War. Shortly thereafter Louis Johnson went into political eclipse for three years (the Presi dent and much of the Administration seemed shocked at such a forthright indication that the U.S. might go to war). But the book added substantially to Leo Cherne's stature - and earnings. Since then his loose-leaf Business and Defense Co ordinator has been snapped...
...only was the expense of digging it out terrific, but diggers hit a well which flooded the basement dressing rooms. On Feb. 10, 1936 the show went broke, rehearsals were temporarily abandoned. The backers - rich and loyal Jews like Presi dent Maurice Levin of Hearn's, President Alfred A. Strelsin of Reliance Advertising Co., Banker Felix M. Warburg, Publisher Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post- had already put up $250,000, were unable or unwilling to continue bearing the full financial responsibility...
Last week the assembled millionaires were greeted officially by Founder-Presi-dent Clayton Sedgwick Cooper but the bill for the banquet at Boston's Hotel Copley-Plaza was footed by the Committee's New England members, including Speculator William ("Big Bad Bill") Danforth; Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green, Hetty Green's son; Vice President & Treasurer Charles G. Bancroft of United Shoe Machinery; J. A. Turrell, retired Woolworth executive. One day some of the members went to Leslie Buswell's home in Gloucester, Mass., then for luncheon at the nearby showplace of John Hays Hammond...
...became evident last week that all was not well within the tight little circle of correspondents who cover the White House and report the President, under rules of his own making, to the country. To Manhattan to address the National Republican Club went Correspondent Krock-"Arthur"' to the Presi-dent-of the great New York Times. As befitted the No. i Washington man of an independent Democratic paper, Arthur Krock attempted to present a first-hand nonpartisan picture of White House press relations. Yet before he had done he spoke in a way that may well have wounded...
...farm, he sits in a rocking chair under a giant rubber tree and holds court. But Caracas saw him last week, when in full uniform General Juan Vicente Gomez celebrated the 25th anniversary of his seizure of the government. Ceremonies were simple. He stalked to the Casa Amarilla, the presi dential palace where he first took office, then through lines of blue-clad soldiers to Caracas Cathedral to dedicate 400,000 bolivars ($104,000) of restorations. On the sidewalks citizens yelled them selves hoarse. Was their President not El Benemerito, the Meritorious One? Had he not made a record...