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...formed Reynard Corp., with himself as president, his brother Barton and his lawyer, C. E. Kelley, as fellow directors, and $60,000 of his own cash and bonds as capital. President Fox thereupon contracted to sell Reynard Corp. his services as a cartoonist for $30,000 a year. Reynard Corp. in turn contracted with the Bell Syndicate to sell the Fox drawings for $1,500 a week, later raised to $2,000. With its profits Reynard Corp. built President Fox a house and studio at Roslyn, L. L, paid his life-insurance premiums. When suspicious Internal Revenue agents learned that...
...President thereupon went on to announce 1) that the new TVA chairman would be Vice Chairman Harcourt A. Morgan, and 2) that he was sending Congress, to do with as that body wished, the 110-page transcript of his hearings of the three TVA directors. Moreover, said the President to the assembled press, the President was tired of reading that the White House had been bringing pressure to bear against a Congressional investigation of TVA. So incensed was he, in fact, by this charge that he wanted the reporters to put on the record his statement that any special writer...
...Soviet Secret Political Police on his neck, and then provided a pretty good reason for their propinquity by going on to denounce Joseph Stalin and excoriate conditions in the Soviet Union. This seems to have left the Soviet press, Tass and Old Bolshevik Litvinoff in a predicament. Thereupon, with all the authority of the Soviet Foreign Office, the Butenko in Rome was branded an "impostor." although Commissar Litvinoff observed darkly that "torture" might have been applied in Italy to extort statements hostile to Stalin from a Russian of some sort. In Soviet papers it was said that Rome papers were...
...petition declaring they would not welcome a church because ''the peace and quiet of the locality would be disturbed . . . clustering of a large number of cars on Sunday would constitute a traffic inconvenience and hazard." To preserve their Sabbath peace, the Hampton Gardens Association thereupon voted. 51-to-7, against allowing St. Giles or any other church to build there...
...circle in shallow water, the tribal chief waded in, waving a bewitched fan. After him followed a few huge Fijians who grasped three-and four-foot sharks by the tail, picked them up thrashing, quietly kissed them-either on the belly or just in front of the caudal fin. Thereupon each ugly shark went rigid, was put ashore never to move again...