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Anybody could have found him out by comparing his reports with the books at the mill, but nobody did. When, early this month, Homes & Davis accidentally heard what had been going on, they promptly discharged him. Very soon they asked him to come back for a while to straighten things out. Mr. Marien's overstatements had been so exuberant-in 1936 to the extent of $879,000-that the officers had voted themselves big bonuses and paid much too much in taxes. But apparently Mr. Marien himself had not acted for profit. To Interstate Hosiery officials he could...
...been −−−−ing up this business long enough. I'm going to straighten it out." Legend has it that these were the words of a hawk-eyed, six-foot Bessarabian Jewish immigrant named Samuel Zemurray who stormed into a meeting of the Bostonian directors of United Fruit Co. in 1932, thumped down on the long table in front of them enough stock certificates and proxies to give him control of the $187,000,000 company. Sam Zemurray got into the banana business in Mobile, Ala. in the early 1900s as a jobber, later peddled United...
...Chinese bombers have appeared during daylight hours, although every Chinese soldier had been given to understand that Chiang Kai-shek's chief threat to Japan consisted in his air force. . . . What now? Japan has succeeded in plunging China into chaos which will take several years, perhaps decades, to straighten out. . . . With China's near collapse understood, neither Russia nor any other nation will feel desirous of giving China military assistance...
FADE OUT-Naomi Jacob-Macmillan ($2.50). The third importation in a year of a prolific, English popular novelist: this one about a playwright and an actress, in a plot which only the proverbial rich grandmother can straighten...
...Kansas City is the easiest place in the country in which to straighten out a case. . . No State is shunned more consistently by professionals [than Connecticut]. . . . There is comparatively little fixing of Federal agents. . . . There are probably many honest coppers, but if so most of them are out in the sticks. . . . When the Eye (Pinkertons) are brought in ... that is bad. They don't think of anything except catching thieves...