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Along with these revelations came some less grave???but still nasty?ones. In Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific Airways fired its director of flight operations, E.B. ("Bernie") Smith. Only two weeks ago, he was pictured in four-color ads in U.S. magazines, describing Lockheed's Super-TriStar as "the most intelligent aircraft I've ever flown." But Cathay Pacific found that Smith was the official identified in Church subcommittee documents as receiving $80,000 in Lockheed money from an "unidentified British agent living in France." He got the payment for helping Lockheed sell planes to other lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: THE BIG PAYOFF | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...bill would "stultify business and industry and increase unemploy-ment." Scripps-Howard statisticians in Washington broadcast to all papers in the chain doleful stories of what would happen if H. R. 2667 became law. An example : "The Grundy Tariff Bill will dog Americans' footsteps from the cradle to the grave???and after. The tomb will be no sanctuary from its depredations. Experts estimate the cost of dying will be increased more than 33%. . . . Rates on coffins . . . shrouds . . . artificial wreaths . . . candles . . . tombstones . . . are all raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: PL R. 2667 Compromise | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...HOUNDS OP SPRING?Sylvia Thompson?Little, Brown ($2). The bird's-eye view of Miss Thompson's novel is promising. A girl's true love goes to war and is reported dead. Desolate and a bit selfish, she marries with half a heart. Then the grave???which was a living one, a prison camp?gives up its dead. She finds it in her to leave husband and child, to conclude, on a veranda in Fiesole, that she was wise to relight her candle after fate had snuffed it. The story is straightforwardly written out, with honest British cliches of word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mary Stuart | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...last week scandalmongering, the Graphic (Manhattan), Bernarr Macfadden's gumchewers' sheetlet par excellence, dragged the memory of Mr. Brandegee from the grave??? began to publish a serial story of his "Wrecked Love," "Sad Secret" that led to the "Dramatic Death of Political Genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: De Mortuis | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

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