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...Office inspectors, Secret Servants toiled all one night under the direction of Madam Director Ross carting the precious canvas-wrapped bricks from the Philadelphia Mint. By next morning they had their precious load packed neatly in four mail coaches of a special nine-car train that was manned by crack machine gunners concealed behind drawn blinds. With right of way cleared, the train chuffed off on its 530-mi. journey. Several hundred yards in front of the gold train went a dummy freight train...
...George Ziegler, landscape engineer, University of Illinois football star, Army flyer, crack golfer and gentle, well-mannered assassin...
...week Michigan's New Deal Governor Frank Murphy and the Department of Labor's crack Conciliator James F. Dewey shuttled back & forth between G. M. and U. A. W. headquarters, trying vainly to bring Generals Knudsen and Martin together at a conference table. Each side conceded one point at issue, stood firm on another. General Martin offered to lay aside, until a conference should begin, his demand that U. A. W. be recognized as sole bargaining agency for G. M. workers. General Knudsen backed down on his earlier insistence that all G. M. bargaining must be by individual...
...Crack-Up (Twentieth Century-Fox). Moon-faced Peter Lorre, in his customary capacity of international spy, carries on his customary search for vital government documents, in this case airplane plans also wanted by rival spies. The picture is notable for the skill of Malcolm St. Clair's direction, the neatness with which it avoids embarrassing mention of foreign governments, a conclusion which involves marital infidelity, an airplane crash, gunplay, lunacy and three drownings...
...been ordered by the National Steeplechase & Hunt Association to turn in his amateur's license, gave his case, which he believed a likely one for libel damages, to a law firm which retained as trial counsel dapper Attorney Murray Bernays. They prepared to bring suit against the crack Manhattan advertising agency of William Esty & Co., R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., makers of Camels, and a long list of publications, headed by Crowell Publishing Co.'s Collier's and American Magazine, and including TIME. First suit to get a court decision was against Crowell, asking...