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...League's own commander-in-chief of the international force is Major General John Edward Spencer Brind, onetime British deputy chief-of-staff in India. He was comfortably ensconced last week in a two-story villa on the Saar River, with plenty of closet room and special wires to the headquarters of all subordinate commanders. British troops, who will make up 1,500 of the League force of 3,300, were also moving...
...raising findings. The new Federal Communications Commission announced a thoroughgoing investigation into American Telephone & Telegraph Co. A.T. & T. stock promptly plunged $10 per share, and President Walter Sherman Gifford felt impelled to assure his security holders that there were no skeletons in the $5,000,000,000 A.T. & T. closet. And President Roosevelt's trip through the Tennessee Valley, with his warm praise for TVA wonders (see p. 11), did not improve the sleep of jittery utilitarians...
...home on Brattle Street, Cambridge, Mass., Miss Alice A. Thorp, granddaughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was entertaining visitors when she heard footsteps above. Fluttering upstairs, Miss Thorp peeked into a bedroom just in time to see a closet door close softly. She tugged it open. Out of the closet scuttled a scared prowler to jump through the window, vanish...
...turned in to Colonel Apted, and working with incredible rapidity he manages to return a small proportion of these articles to their rightful owners. All things found in the Yard, even tortoises strayed from the Biology Department, eventually are turned in to the Colonel, who throws them into a closet and waits for the owner to come around and prove his identity...
...Indianapolis that Kidnapper Robinson motored Mrs. Stoll. In an apartment two blocks from the executive mansion of the Governor of Indiana, she was bound, nearly suffocated in a closet. Following directions in the ransom letter left in Louisville, Mrs. Stoll's kin sent $50,000 express to Father Robinson in Nashville. Snatcher Robinson's wife started for Indianapolis with the money, detrained at Terre Haute, unconsciously avoided a taxi proffered by a D. O. I. man in disguise, motored to Indianapolis. Off the trail, Chief Purvis and his men did not catch up with Mrs. Robinson until...