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...people are watching every move made by both the lawyers for the Government and the defense, in order to find out whether rich men can thwart the process of justice by having a staff of able attorneys or whether witnesses can remain abroad indefinitely after being served with subpoenas. The big issue is whether the possessor of great wealth can, by use of legal talent, detective agencies, tampering with the jury and through the absence of important witnesses in Europe, defeat the aims of justice and keep out of the penitentiary. The whole sordid scandal is like a dead mackerel...
Fashionable neighbors of Colonel Green have refused to sell him adjoining land that he wanted, have attempted to thwart his airport scheme on the grounds that it will be a nuisance to their summer tranquillity. "Let them go to it." stormed Colonel Green last week...
...Hicks raided their London quarters (TIME, May 23). How to retaliate, how to make harsh gestures has been their aim. Recently they reconfirmed a concession that William Averell Harriman had wheedled from them for mining manganese (TiME, June 20). The British had been, supposedly, using their astute offices to thwart that concession. Giving it to Mr. Harriman, the Soviets intended as a slap at Great Britain...
...Paris. Loaded with enough gasoline to cross the Atlantic, their plane roared along the ground at Langley Field, near Hampton, Va. Gradually, almost painfully, it rose to a height of some 50 feet. A row of trees, planted years ago by an industrious pioneer, now rose up to thwart these air pioneers. Lieutenant Wooster turned the beak of the American Legion, slightly, ever so slightly. With that turn, the plane lost flying speed. A landing was now imperative. Marshes, mud flats, duck ponds yawned below. Upon a small patch of green, Lieutenant Wooster made a perfect landing-an almost unheard...
...that they had more hyphens and initials among them than ordinary folk. There was P. W. Murray-Threipland, for instance, an old Etonian in the bow of the Oxford shell, and M. F. A. Kean, an old Haileyburian, in the Cambridge bow. The stalwart on the Cambridge stroke-thwart was E. C. Hamilton-Russell. The bird-like little coxswain before him had a plain name, J. A. Brown, but J. A. Brown was impressive enough for the Oxonians. J. A. Brown had already steered two Cantab crews to victory in as many years and Sir James Croft, the mouse-eyed...