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Such an act is clearly Fascist. Its loudest champions have been Britain's No. 1 Blackshirt Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, Tory Die-Hard Winston Churchill and the Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, leather-lunged Lord "Boom" Trenchard. Against the Act gentle Quakers have industriously murmured. Socialist penfolk like H. G. Wells accuse His Majesty's Government of either having the jitters or consciously preparing...
Economics Statistics was founded by three bright young disciples of Economist Lewis Henry Haney of New York University-George Ogden Trenchard, Jules Blackman and Andrew Lavell Jackson, great-grandson of Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson and onetime editor of Bradstreet. Working in Wall Street by day and plugging for Ph.D.'s by night, they absorbed Professor Haney's theories of forecasting business by analyzing demand-supply factors, amplified his statistical methods, established the service just a year ago. Their clients already include nearly every big Manhattan bank, countless brokers, such major industrials as General Motors and International Harvester...
Scotland Yard was ready to admit that perhaps it was not the world's best police force when in 1932 what Britain called a crime wave brought London 23 murders, 13,800 burglaries. What shocked the new Commissioner, big-framed, bigger-voiced Hugh Montague ("Boom") Trenchard, Baron Trenchard, was the discovery that the Yard's crack men rose in rank not by ability but by seniority. He soon found out that the Vienna police force was not only the world's best but also the most educated. Every Viennese police lieutenant has a law degree. "Boom" Trenchard...
...murderers dead by hanging or their own hand. For the 21st, the murder of a language teacher from Cyprus, the Yard nabbed a man but lost a conviction on the evidence of ballistics experts. Only one big jewel robbery marred the year. But what made "Boom" Trenchard smile under his military mustache is the strange calm that has fallen over London since Jan. 1 : not one murder, not one big robbery...
...faced Eva Le Gallienne of Manhattan's Civic Repertory Theatre and strapping, hollow-eyed Ethel Barrymore. Invited to address the Assembly earlier in the week, Miss Le Gallienne failed to appear, was now making amends by speaking gratis. Several hundred Philadelphia socialite women, including Mrs. Upton Favorite, Mrs. Trenchard Emlen Newbold and Mrs. Arthur B. Waters, the Assembly's director, who had scolded her roundly and threatened to sue, appeared to hear her apologize. But Miss Le Gallienne had no apology to make. She rapped out: "I'm disappointed...