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...Charter of Labor may have made possible one of the great compensation suits in the history of international reporting, has nonetheless carried the U. P. well over the bump of losing the kingpin of its Rome office. From the first shots and bomb thuds, U. P. European Manager Webb Miller has been flying the front with Premier Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano...
Scoop of the week was scored by Webb Miller, United Press War Correspondent No. i, who got his news training in Chicago, remembers Mussolini as a fellow reporter at the Cannes Conference in 1921. Last week Newshawk Miller witnessed the start of the invasion of Ethiopia from the mountain-top observation post of skinny, goat-bearded General de Bono, sent an exclusive dispatch by wireless from Asmara (see p. 19). The message reached Rome before official dispatches, was relayed to London by telephone, thence by cable to New York and all U. P. wires...
...jail in broad daylight, he wrote that the guards told him when to work, "as the saw made a big fuss." Free, he plunged into the Sutton-Taylor feud, killed Sheriff Jack Helms, enjoyed a period of relative peace and prosperity until he killed Deputy Sheriff Charlie Webb, whose friends, resenting it, lynched Hardin's brother, two cousins, and a friend. Escaping to Florida, Hardin was captured by a Texas Ranger who traced him through his wife. By the time he had served his sentence and been pardoned, the West was no longer wild enough for him. His second...
Clearing up once and for all the question of a possible marriage, the man who has set the hearts of a million women palpitating said, "I will probably marry again, once I get a divorce from Fay Webb, although I have nobody in mind at the present time. As for the reports linking Mary Brian and myself, they are distinctly erroneous; we are only good friends...
...estimate his annual income within $100,000. Next day both sides called accountants who testified that his income was $155,000 in 1932, dropped to $93,000 in 1933, rose to $121,000 last year. Mrs. Vallee's best witness was her father, Police Chief Clarence E. Webb of Sacramento, Calif., who accused Rudy of teaching Fay to drink. Soon all issues were forgotten in a noisy, three-sided squabble among the opposing lawyers and Justice Cotillo. Climax came when Rudy, enraged by one of his wife's lawyers, struck a fighting pose, threatened to scuffle. Abruptly, Justice...