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...investigation proceeded, it became increasingly difficult to believe the du Pont thesis that military explosives, small though it appeared, is a business in which the firm takes no interest, would gladly be without. Evidence was introduced to show that in February 1933 the company signed a contract with one Del Sungo Giera, active throughout the War as a spy both for the Germans and the Allies, secretly to provide munitions for Germany. Suddenly reminded of the Versailles Treaty the company tore up this contract and substituted another saying that they would ship no munitions to Germany without the approval...
...when a group headed by International Mercantile Marine bought the U. S. Lines from the Shipping Board, it contracted to send the giant S. S. Leviathan on seven transatlantic trips a year for five years. During the first year under this contract the Leviathan lost more than $500,000. Thereupon the U. S. Lines put her in dock at Hoboken, N. J., for a year, tried to persuade the Government to cancel its contract. The Government stood by its bargain, but the company had this loophole: U. S. Lines might omit two of the Leviathan's seven contracted trips...
When she attended a Manhattan high school, Jean Arthur's ambition was to become a tight-rope walker. She got a job as a photographer's model. When a Fox scout saw her picture he arranged a screen test, then a contract. At 15, Jean Arthur went to Hollywood, acted in cinema for nine years, made her stage debut in 1932 as a Hungarian peasant in. Foreign Affairs. Since then she has appeared in The Curtain Rises, Virtuous Husbands, The Man Who Reclaimed His Head...
...down and do acts. She knows a lot about music and likes musicians at her parties. She joined the company of Viva Villa as an extra, got a small featured role without bothering to reveal her identity. Paramount scouts liked her work, singled her out for a long term contract before they knew her name. She refused to play in her father's Cleopatra (TIME, Aug. 27). Her next picture will be The Gilded Lily...
...annual drive against solicitors for the various laundry and pressing concerns occurred last night in one of the Yard dormitories, when a deputy of Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, chief of Yard Police apprehended a student in the act of pleading with a freshman for his laundry contract. The man was put out of the dormitory and Colonel Apted issued a warning to all concerned that the University's rule against canvassing the dormitories would be upheld. Neither the culprit nor Apted and anything to say about the affair but the ultimatum was issued. Solicitors beware...