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...party had hired a cab in Zurich, and gaily roller-coastered 60-odd miles through the Alps to Chur. The ceremony itself was an intimate ten-minute affair at the local registry office. The wedding feast: coffee and cakes in a patisserie. Then back by cab to picturesque Zurich. Then off to Bern and the Hotel Bellevue...
Unlike most lynch mobs, the men who beat and killed Negro Willie Earle (TIME, Feb. 24) were not hard to unmask. Most of them wore cab drivers' caps; several of their automobiles were taxis. They were almost surely from Greenville, where Willie Earle had been arrested after the murder of a cab driver ten days...
Starting from there, police and the FBI moved fast. Two clues turned up: I) the burnt stock of a shotgun, jammed in the flue of a Yellow Cab office in Greenville; 2) blood-stained seat cushions from a taxi. Drivers were rounded up, began to talk, implicated still more...
...CAB Chairman James M. Landis, who has intimated that T.W.A. would fly better without Hughes, did his share of pushing the loan. It "might be wise" said he in a radio interview, for RFC to make a loan "here and there" to help floundering airlines buy new equipment...
Deeply perturbed by this slump, CABoss Landis had other ideas for helping the weak flyers. Although CAB has not liked airline mergers, on the grounds that they cut down competition, Landis now suggested that mergers might be the best way to keep some airlines out of bankruptcy. More cheering was a strong hint that increases in passenger and mail rates might be in the offing. CABoss Landis sternly warned that "management inefficiency" would not be underwritten by subsidies or higher rates. But at week's end he ordered an investigation to see if current rates are "unjust or unreasonable...