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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Only trouble with this plot was that few pulp editors would offend their read ers with such horrendous fantasy. Mr. Hoover's answer to that one: it was no fantasy at all. Last weekend he and his G-Men rounded up the 18, jailed them in Manhattan, charged them with conspiracy against the U. S. Government. Chief among their prisoners were two active Christian Fronters, John F. Cassidy and William Gerald Bishop (whom Belgium and Great Britain had previously de ported). Their affiliations greatly embarrassed Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin, who is forever calling for "a Christian...
Last week RFC and SEC spoke out. The answer in both cases was no. RFC refused its loan. SEC ruled that the No. 1 subsidiary could not pay Associated the necessary sum because it had not been earned. This decision Mr. Whiteford had seen coming because he well knew that SEC was more concerned about Associated's operating and sub-holding companies (with outstanding securities of $539,139,000 in the hands of the public) than it was about Associated at the top of the heap...
Midyear grades will not be given out to students in person at University Hall, because the difficulty of entering grades and carrying on at the same time the regular office routine makes it impossible to answer such individual requests...
...lobbies of the Dail, meanwhile, it was whispered that I. R. A. plans were for a combined insurrection and war to overthrow the Governments of both Eire and Northern Ireland, sweep away the intervening fron tier and proclaim the Irish Republic - a move which Great Britain would certainly answer by sending an expeditionary force to Ireland as she did to crush the "Easter Rebellion" of 1916. Thus what members of the Dail faced last week may well have been a mortal threat to the whole structure of Anglo-Irish friendship-&-trade which has been slowly erected in the past decade...
...carpet Getulio Vargas there upon haled his debonair Director of Propaganda Lourival Fontes, to find out why Brazilian Fascism was getting a bad press. Senhor Fontes' answer was brief and to the point: Brazil's newspapers were sick of censorship...