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...report was late because State Administrator McDonough had been honeymooning. Day later his report was in Washington and Maine had been granted $598,000 for November relief. But G. O. Partisans had scored a (continued on p. 16) sufficiently important point to cause Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins to crack back...
Trouble started in September when Louisville & Nashville R. R. decided to route its Chicago-Florida passenger business over Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Ry. ("Big Four") instead of over Chicago & Eastern Illinois'. It had been doing business with C. & E. I. for half, a century, had run its crack Southern trains over the C. & E. I. route since 1904. But C. & E. I. is now in financial distress and reputedly has difficulty getting Pullman Co.'s best equipment for through sleeper service to Florida. Big Four, as a New York Central subsidiary, gets the very best. Both lines run from...
...Majesty was-and strongly implying that the Jugoslav Government had friendly ties with Nazi Berlin. In ruthless, effective Balkan fashion the police of Belgrade proceeded to make Alexander's funeral safe. Over 6,500 suspects and near-suspects were thrown into jail. Lest someone try to take a crack at General Goring every German immigrant in the capital was put under house arrest. Despite incessant rains the carrying of umbrellas was barred. Ditto walking sticks and bouquets of flowers...
...Like most "Yankee publications" you can't resist the temptation to have your dirty, untruthful dig at Southerners, but this time you are not content to censure and abuse the living, you must take a dirty crack at the dead. The sentences to which I refer [TIME, Oct. 1] read in this manner: ''As unique as its cooking is the South's propensity for sending strange characters as its ambassadors to the U. S. Senate. Because of the political degeneracy of the one-party system, the incompetence of the Deep South's voters...
...Some 50 crack reporters, sob-sisters, cameramen, ranging from the august New York Times to the Polish Everybody's Record jammed the press tables in Luzerne County Courthouse at Wilkes-Barre. Most conspicuous of all was the hulking, white-crowned figure of Author Dreiser. Rip-snorting Publisher Julius David Stern, who has been trying to transform the ancient New York Post into a wild-&-woolly liberal sheet, had hired Dreiser to cover the trial for the Post, the Philadelphia Record, and a syndicate string. Author Dreiser was also covering for Mystery Magazine...