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...Washington's Connecticut Avenue one morning last week raced an automobile bearing agents of the U. S. House of Representatives. Whr-r-r-o-r! Out of Connecticut Avenue in hot pursuit sped an automobile bearing agents of the U. S. Senate. Whr-r-r-o-r! Out of Connecticut Avenue whizzed an automobile bearing Washington police officers. Speed laws were ignored while pedestrians leaped for their lives. One- two-three, the automobiles screeched to a halt in front of the swank Shoreham Hotel. Their occupants piled out, raced up the steps. Prize of the chase was big black...
...recalled, onetime (1929-33) Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley, attorney for A. G. & E., had finally produced Mr. Hopson for the Senate Stock Exchange investigation after Ferdinand Pecora's agents had been vainly hunting him for more than six weeks. Forthwith Chairman O'Connor sped his men off to Leesburg, Va. whence they could swoop down on Belmont, Mr. Hurley's nearby estate, take Mr. Hopson by surprise...
...Saratoga Springs, N. Y. over the two miles to Saratoga Spa last week swarmed horseowners, trainers, jockeys, stablemen, gamblers, tipsters, touts. In the same direction swarmed Saratoga storekeepers, hotel keepers, boarding house keepers, restaurateurs, druggists, doctors, lawyers, undertakers, servants, socialites, priests, preachers, rabbis. In the same direction sped Governor Herbert Lehman, Mrs. Lehman, George Foster Peabody, many another dignitary...
Next the motorcade sped 32 miles to Duxford where Queen Mary was waiting to have luncheon. In high good humor King George cracked jokes and roared with mirth during the meal. Thus two hours were whiled away, every minute being needed to get 182 fighting ships into the air ready for the "Fly Past" over Duxford. This was made at the unusually high altitude for an air force review of 1,000 feet "because the king is greatly affected by noise." So were 150,000 spectators. Even at 1,000 feet the menacing clatter of the air armada filled Britons...
...word was contributed by II Duce's nimble Moneymen Dr. Vincenzo Azzolini, dynamic Governor of the Bank of Italy, and suave Professor Alberto Beneduce who manages the State credit pools in which much of Fascist industry is kept afloat. After the briefest courtesies they sped back to Italy, leaving the other titans of finance to chew the rag. None would permit himself to be quoted, but said one: "Only a few months ago Italy's credit position was such that she was desperately cutting down and rationing her imports, yet now she is importing war supplies from everywhere...