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...brother and sister-in-law grew suspicious of him when: 1) he "found" one of the ransom notes under Brother Cash's store door, 2) he remarked how easy it would be to break into their house. They told Sheriff Coleman, who trapped McCall in a fake alibi and turned him over to the G-men. Not for a week did he "crack" under their questioning...
...That Roosevelt 'bewitches' people," challenges Ludwig, "is one of the silliest objections raised by his opponents." Far from his personal charm being fake, says Biographer Ludwig, it is the very key to Roosevelt's unique "destiny," of the greatest "symbolic significance for our age," the reason, in fact, that "the spirit of the biographer found itself akin to that of his subject." As here traced, the decisive fact is that Roosevelt was born of Hudson River landed gentry, thus naturally acquired simplicity of manner, a distaste for arrogance and showoff...
...bombs" went off around them. The "bombs": nothing more than mighty firecrackers. The only damage: a window in the Royal Mews which fell clattering to the ground as a "bomb" went off too close. Windsor volunteers, organized in decontamination and first-aid squads, raced over the grounds aiding the fake "victims." All this was part of a test cf the air-raid preparations for the castle, recently fitted with anti-gas and bombproof chambers. Eton College, just across the Thames, also was "attacked." The mock-raids began with an evening blackout, ended with divine service in the Windsor Parish Church...
Then he was trapped, for the Exchange suddenly decided to require financial statements from all its member firms (as a firm having no margin accounts Richard Whitney & Co. had always avoided this). Dick Whitney tried to bluff his way through by submitting fake figures, but the Exchange sent accountants to his office. This time, Brother George was in Florida, so Dick ran to Morgan-Partner Bartow with the whole miserable tale and a request for $280,000 more. Banker Bartow went to Lawyer John W. Davis, who forbade any financial assistance as improper. Bartow then motored out to Long Island...
Orator Göring, who was wearing for this popular occasion scarcely any of his medals, and these few on the brown shirt of a simple Storm Trooper, roared that "the courts" will deal with former Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg because he "criminally" ordered a "fake plebiscite," later canceled on the demand of Hitler (TIME, March 21). "None of Schuschnigg's supporters died for their convictions!" jeered Daredevil Göring. "But some of them fled with the cash box! . . . The tyrant was swept away and our troops marched in as brothers of a liberated people." Since there were undoubtedly...