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...Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon to rise in the House of Commons one day last week and say: "I feel sure that the whole House will join me m regretting the pain and indignation that have been caused throughout Belgium by this unfounded and irresponsible statement ... by Colonel Seton Hutchison to the effect that the late King of the Belgians was murdered." What the imaginative British lieutenant colonel, wounded and decorated four times during the War, had done was to put into words a rumor that had grown fast from a cloud of unanswered questions about Albert's death...
Sixty-nine years ago in the largest house on Manhattan's Washington Square was born H. (for Henry) Hobart Porter. His brother Seton Porter was born on 47th Street. Both grew up to be engineers. Hobart helped found the great firm of Sanderson & Porter which Seton later joined as a partner. In business as well as politics engineers sometimes become chief executives. Brother Hobart chose water for his province, Brother Seton whiskey...
Henry Hobart Porter is 17 years older than handsome Seton but they see eye-to-eye on most questions. Last fortnight Brother Seton, who is president of National Distillers Products, also had something to say about taxes. He dusted off National Distillers' famed publicity stunt -the whiskey dividend of 1932-and used it once again, not to attract attention but to divert it. Both his customers and his Government were disgruntled with him and all other distillers over high liquor prices. So President Porter released a breakdown of the taxes and expenses which the stockholders had been asked...
...These figures are in themselves illustrative of the futility of the argument so frequently advanced that the bootlegger who pays no taxes must be done away with by underselling him," purred Brother Seton...
...French peasants wore. (In her later years St. Louise wore a form of widow's weeds.) The "Loyola Unit" of the Sisters of Charity were the only U. S. nuns to go overseas during the War. U. S. Sisters have their own candidate for Sainthood: Venerable Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821) who founded a U. S. branch in Maryland and whose cause is being promoted for beatification (TIME...