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...Government's case is that he has by no means committed himself ever to do any such thing, that the trust actually keeps the Mellon pictures in the Mellon family and that MelIons may go on dangling their sugar plum until doom's crack. The Mellon pictures are now locked securely in Washington's Corcoran Gallery, unseen except by MelIons and friends and, once by subpoena, by Government Counsel Robert Houghwout Jackson. In 1931, just five of them were transferred to the trust, supposedly for tax purposes...
...were scuttling about Washington prodding the State Department to protest. Last week some Washington observers thought the State Department might use the Barletta incident to demonstrate President Roosevelt's "good neighbor" concept of the 112-year-old Monroe Doctrine - i.e., might not only refuse all requests to crack down on Trujillo but permit Mussolini to crack down himself, if he can. Thus, in the eyes of Latin America, the U. S. would be blameless, Musso lini the goat...
...recess was declared. Same day Manhattan newspapers carried display advertising of a "new, faster Sky Chief," pictures of another TWAirliner which last week flew from Los Angeles to New York non-stop in 11 hr. 5 min., broke the transcontinental transport record by half an hour. First Douglas to crack up in the U. S., Sky Chief's misfortune seemed clearly due to weather, not construction...
...first time in a decade. To increase it still further,. Pennsylvania last week cut Broadway Limited's New York-Chicago time to 17 hr. (a reduction of 45 min.), lowered the extra fare from $10 to $7.50. Simultaneously New York Central did the same with its crack 33-year-old Twentieth Century Limited...
...President Sydney George McAllister got his Harvester start in the traditional Harvester way- as an office boy. Climbing slowly to an executive job in Harvester's European division, he spent 17 years in Brussels, was called home in 1931. Cool, steady, suspicious of the Press like all crack Harvester officials, he lives quietly with his wife and son in Highland Park outside Chicago, seldom entertains...