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First to renew operations was United Air Lines, which took over the mail this week on its old Northern Transcontinental and Pacific Coast routes. Ready to fly the Central Transcontinental mail was Transcontinental & Western Air, which had gotten back its contract by bidding at an almost suicidal rate. Likewise ready was Eastern Air Lines, which was awarded the Newark-Miami and Newark-New Orleans contracts...
...Haiti's present U. S. bondholders and rid his little republic of the U. S.'s watchdog, Sidney De La Rue. Financial Adviser-General Receiver of Haitian Customs. But the bankers wanted De La Rue on the spot to protect the refunding loan too. President Vincent had gotten exactly nowhere last week when he left Manhattan for Washington...
...Coco last week, killed eight Sandinistas, captured six and a quantity of precious ammunition. Meanwhile a Col. Camilo Gonzalez, formerly of Nicaragua's National Guard, was landed last week at Manhattan's Ellis Island from the S. S. Santa Ana. A Costa Rican newshawk had somehow gotten and published a story that Gonzalez had bragged of killing Sandino on ''direct written orders from General Somoza...
...hands to theatrical biographies of 19th Century lady authors. A year ago there was talk of producing in the U. S. Clemence Dane's Wild Decembers, a study of the Bronte's acclaimed in London. This possibility becomes more remote now that Playwright Totheroh (Distant Drums) has gotten his own story of the three weird sisters of Haworth on the boards. There would be no use selecting the same family twice to demonstrate the well-proven thesis that the library, not the theatre, is the proper setting for biographical research...
...freed from outside coercion. On this point the motor executives won out, but labor, on the other hand, managed to get the process of collective bargaining more clearly defined. Labor has adopted the wise course in deciding to consolidate its position, taking advantage of the gains it has already gotten under the NRA instead of bringing on a strike which would have meant suffering to millions and a setback to the industrial progress of the country...