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Before the President's plane had decanted him in Cuba, Panama was abuzz. When he heard that Don Arnulfo was gone, onetime Police Chief Colonel Manuel Pino rubbed his hands. With two other veteran politicos, Julio Fabrega and Leopoldo Arosemena, he had been planning for a month to seize the police force and set up a junta...
...their hands tied to the Axis, could hope only to lose as little as possible; while Thailand, easily egged into the war by Japan, could hardly hope to control whatever it won. Only likely winner was Japan, whose sword-rattling, fleet-maneuvering "mediation'' set all the Orient abuzz, and who will presumably dominate any areas ceded to Thailand...
...week on Bell's books were Air Corps orders for 93 Airacobras, and its backlog stood at $7,400,000. And if the P39 should be released for export, Larry Bell could see more business ahead than he dreamed of a year ago. Last week the industry was abuzz with a report that a French mission was negotiating for as many Airacobras as Larry Bell could...
...more than he. Through his second largest philanthropy, the General Education Board, he angeled Progressive Education. Prime monument to his influence is Manhattan's Lincoln School, which for 22 years has done more than any other institution to shape U. S. public schools. Last week progressive educators were abuzz about: i) an attempt to put Lincoln School quietly out of the way, 2) an attempt by a Rockefeller grandson to prevent...
...afternoon in Philadelphia last week the small, neat auditorium of Woman's Medical College was abuzz with 500 stenographers, teachers, socialites and charwomen, members of the first group that ever banded together specifically to ward off cancer in their own bodies. Last year Woman's Medical College, only institution of its kind in the U. S.,* got $2,400 from the American Medical Association...