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...supported by dubious documents, that Amtorg Trading Corp., Soviet commercial agency in the U. S., is also the secret U. S. headquarters for Soviet political propaganda and agitation (TIME, May 12). At the hearings, bomb squad detectives lined the walls. A Russian monarchist sat just behind the committee to prompt and whisper. Curious women fanned and gasped in the stuffy room...
...Washington Senator Morris of Nebraska, arch critic of what he calls the Power trust, was of course prompt and bitter with his denunciation of Mr. Insull's "disgraceful attitude." Other Senators (Dill, Wheeler) sarcastically thanked Mr. Insull for performing a "public service." Washington waited to see what ef fect the catchy phrase "three mills . . . six cents" might have on the Senatorial inquisition, the great Power Probe, long-sought by the greatest inquisitor of them all, Senator Walsh of Montana. The investigation, started by a Walsh resolution in 1926, into the propagandizing activities and financial structure of public utilities...
Declared Oswald F. Schuette, executive secretary of Radio Protective Association (composed of independents) : ". . . The end of the reign of terror ... !" Said Bertram James Grigsby, of Grigsby-Grunow Co. (Majestic Radio): "Extremely gratified. . . ." Press headlines proclaimed: ADMINISTRATION STARTS TRUST-BUSTING CAMPAIGN! But prompt was Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell to deny that there was "occasion for any such campaign." Indeed, the Government's petition in the Radio suit stated: "The defendants . have earnestly contended that they are doing nothing more than . . . authorized...
...virtual retirement of Cineman Fox indicated the prompt abandonment of a series of State and Federal suits which for many weeks had engaged the attention of a considerable portion of Manhattan's Bench and Bar. The most bitter part of this litigation had centred about an agreement signed on Dec. 3, 1929. At this time Mr. Fox, who during 1929 had spent some $90,000,000 in purchasing control of Loew's, Inc., and of the Gaumont chain of British cinema houses, and whom the collapse of the stockmarket had left in debt to the extent of about...
Employment representatives, offering a variety of work opportunities, are visiting this office each week Men with no definite positions in view for next year are especially urged to make prompt application in order that they may avail themselves of the widest range of choices...