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...takes enormous pride in finding fugitives when authorities fail, continued working on the case, none more diligently than white-fringed "Jim" Barrett, whom Hearst got when the New York World expired. Editor Barrett sent Reporter Allen Norton, an old World man, to prowl about the Sherwood apartment in Brooklyn, whither Mrs. Sherwood had long ago returned without her husband. Mrs. Sherwood had moved away. Newshawk Norton dug up a neighbor who happened to remember the name on the moving van which carted the Sherwood furniture. The moving company was persuaded to open its books, and there was the new address...
...speech, simple and sympathetic, was more than a review of his two months in office, more than a recitation of the purposes of his Civilian Conservation Corps, his Tennessee Valley Plan, his mortgage and farm relief bills, his railroad legislation (see p. 12). For the baffled businessman who wondered whither he was being led, it was a look into the future. To many that future had looked like an era of State Socialism, with the Government's grip fixed hard & fast upon industry, agriculture, transportation. To others it seemed as if Congress were abdicating its Constitutional powers...
...Washington conversations to appear in Geneva. Two days later Mr. Davis backed France and Britain to the full against German requests for "sample" tanks and siege guns, and let correspondents understand that this too was a Roosevelt-Hcrriot-MacDonald agreement. London. Next day the oracle spoke again, from Britain, whither the Ambassador-at-Large hurried by train and plane to join the organizing committee of the World Economic Conference. Again he had an official announcement...
Such is the fitting home of the man who rules the biggest publishing empire ever carved out of these U. S. His hermitage it was originally, his place of retirement from the world, but each year he has made it more and more a capital whither he calls satraps, whence he sends commands. There he picks up a telephone -of his private switchboard, Hacienda 13 F 11-to talk, for perhaps an hour, to his editors in San Francisco or Chicago or Atlanta or Manhattan. There every day he dictates sheafs of orders-of-the-day beginning "The Chief says...
...with fear (as well they might be) hundreds of Japanese Peiping residents as well as North Chinese piled onto trains bound for Central China and Shanghai whither 3,882 cases of Manchu treasures were lately shipped from Peiping by the "Young Marshal," no fool (TIME...