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...decided to use as far as possible the distributing and statistical services of the Federal Reserve system and the skeleton organization of War Finance Corp. It was also decided to adopt a clam-like policy in dealing with the Press. The board's attitude of secrecy, however, did not prevent President William Wallace Atterbury of Pennsylvania R. R. from announcing that his road would apply for a loan of "$5.000,000 a month for an indefinite period" to carry on the electrification of its New York-Washington line. Rail-road Credit Corp. intimated that it might...
...Leviathan, arriving at Manhattan, completed her first round trip to Europe under Roosevelt-Dollar-Dawson control (TIME, Nov. 2). A West Indian cruise she was scheduled to make was cancelled and she herself was ordered laid up "indefinitely" at a Hoboken pier. Of her 800 men, all but a skeleton crew were thrown out of work. International Mercantile Marine Co., half-owner of U. S. Lines, promised to try to place them on its other ships. Surprised by the company's action. Representative Ewin Lamar Davis, chair-man of the House Merchant Marine Committee, talked of an investigation of ocean...
...motorboat, harpooned Ethelbert, then lost him. Others grappled him up, put him on display. Indignant Portland police confiscated Ethelbert's remains, arrested the Lessards. An indignant Portland judge fined them $200 each for "killing a fish" with weapons other than hook & line. Last week Ethelbert was only a skeleton and a memory, but the Lessards were still trying to escape payment of their $400 fines. With one stroke Circuit Judge Hall S. Lusk, to whom they appealed, erased the blot from Ethelbert's escutcheon, wiped out the Lessard fines. Like almost everybody else, he knew, and explained...
...newspapers can't give it to us. They may be able to hand us the skeleton of dates and facts, but how can we ascertain from these the underlying causes of any one event and realize its possible effect on us as individuals or as a nation? How can we grasp the significance of this Chino-Japanese war from a mere report of the capture of a new unpronounceable town? How can we ever be expected to be of any use in promoting world peace if we don't know the history and the doings and the hopes...
...other candidate appeared in any of their constituencies to make them fight. Thus popped back into the House were slim, aristocratic Speaker of the House Edward Algernon Fitzroy (proud of his Royal bastard ancestry) and Stanley Baldwin, pudgy, bumbling Conservative leader. Other lucky candidates made up the following skeleton House...