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...Press casualty of the week in London was William Burton Burton-Baldry's pithy two-page financial tipsheet, the Fortnightly Review. Editor Burton-Baldry, senior partner in a London brokerage house, had said in July: "War is not only unlikely, but almost impossible." With markets disrupted by an improbable war, the Fortnightly Review suspended publication "till the 'all clear' signal sounds...
Chief feature of the Investment News was a daily column of market advice run under the by-line of "Waldo Young." Its author, Editor Clarence Hebb, unwilling to leave Wall Street, announced he would continue the column as a broker's tipsheet. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal took over Investment News's 6,000 subscriptions, editorialized: "The business recession, rising costs and taxes upon gross -problems with which all business men are familiar-contributed to the final decision to suspend. More will be heard from this ghastly combination...
Questioned again about the recent London activities of his aide. Captain Royal Ingersoll-who was last week sensationally reported by the British political tipsheet The Week to have been engaged in showing the British admiralty a complete outline of Japanese Naval plans stolen in Tokyo by a U. S. secret agent-Admiral Leahy was still reluctant to do more than admit that in London Captain Ingersoll had indeed discussed "tonnage of combatant ships...
...York Herald Tribune applauded the fact that nowhere in the British Isles had any newspaper or magazine yet coupled the names of the King and Mrs. Simpson, or the facts of their friendship and her divorce. This had been done only by a mimeographed London weekly tipsheet, The Week, of negligible circulation. Pontificated Pundit Lippmann: "The reticence of the British press cannot be put down to an effort of the King to suppress knowledge of his regard for Mrs. Simpson. The true explanation is that the British press is forbidden by a recently enacted law to make a public spectacle...
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