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This last week has been replete with Interesting events, some of them of more than passing importance; but among them were two especially which summon up remembrance of things past and apparently forgotten. These items were accounts of the Dillon frauds and of the suspicious action of an American shippers' organization which seems to have stacked systematically the personnel of the Government board which handed out the contracts and subsidies to domestic lines. Both stories were inconspicuously set up, and we can safely assume that the city editor correctly estimated their news value. And that fact cannot help but carry...
...German Swiss have been unmoved at offers to trade their dull commercial comfort for the hysterical frenzy of the Third Reich, but last week they got mad. At Ramsen on the German border three Nazi toughs crossed the Swiss frontier, beat off a Swiss customs guard before he could summon aid, seized a Czech citizen named Hermann Weber, dragged him screaming into Germany. There have been a series of similar incidents. Switzerland's unvarying foreign policy (MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS) has kept all Swiss papers from any overt criticisms of the Hitler Government but last week even the staid...
...picks up Claire and flies to it. Sabotaged by a rival shipbuilding firm the seadrome is slowly sinking. Ellissen suggests to the crew that they take to the lifeboats. Then his noisy emotions again shift. He decides that the lovers really mean well by him, flies away to summon the proper mechanical help to save the seadrome...
...automobile in Manhattan's Central Park; in a Manhattan hospital. Although he had a broken pelvis and internal injuries, he tried to refuse hospitalization after the accident, gave a fictitious name. No one suspected his identity until he disclosed it few days before his death in order to summon his wife...
...work for Publicist Lee. Not only did he rise to No. 1 man on the Lee staff, devoting most of his time to Pennsylvania Railroad and Chrysler, but he became a private relations counsel between his temperamental chief and the rest of the staff. When Mr. Lee would abruptly summon his staff to meet him in his uptown suite in the old Waldorf, demand to know why a certain letter had not been sent out as directed, then brokenly announce: "I'm through. I simply can't go on. You fellows divide up the accounts!" -it was Tommy...