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Five stories below Wall Street are the vaults of the U. S. Assay Office. How they protect the gold stored within them is a closely guarded secret. Since the bomb explosion of 1920, which occurred while the building was being erected, the Assay Office has allowed no visitors within its...
Fox Film seeks to set aside the agreement (made when Filman Fox was ousted in 1930) to pay its founder $500,000 annually until 1935 for his "advisory" services, and to recover what it has already paid him. Demanding an accounting of his alleged secret profits from stock manipulations with...
A stuffed shirt was literally what they were honoring. When Jeremy Bentham, famed economist-philosopher, died at 84, he left to the University of London his body, to be dissected in the presence of friends. In his will he provided that "my skeleton will be caused to be put together...
Bespectacled, statistic-loving Premier Molotov has been embarrassed lately by guarded criticism in the Moscow press of his beauteous blonde young wife's doings, still more embarrassed by Moscow gossip. Why, since the Soviet Union is again pinched by a food shortage (TIME, May 23), are powders, perfumes, rouges and...
London's Anti-Suicide Bureau, founded 1906, is the prototype of the organizations which Dr. Hoffman wishes reproduced in the U. S. Vienna has an Advisory Centre for Those Weary of Life. Berlin has a Suicide's Aid Society. Odessa?boldly disregarding the imitativeness of would-be suicides?has an...