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...Brandywine's Banks. Eleuthèree Irénée du Pont de Nemours was a young Frenchman* who had studied gunpowder-making under France's great chemist Lavoisier, had become inspector general of commerce under King Louis XVI. When revolutionary mobs stormed the Tuileries in 1791, Irénée and Papa Pierre led 60 volunteers who defended the King until only they and six others were left alive. They escaped, later sailed to the U.S. There, young Irénée, amazed at the high price and low quality of gunpowder, raised...
...incorrigible. In three decades of typing his manuscripts, she found only one word he was apt to misspell ("millionaress"). Together they figured out the massive Shavian income tax; so good was Shaw's head for figures that he received a letter of thanks from His Majesty's inspector of taxes. But when an idea became involved with the figures, Shaw's acumen (and scruples) deserted him instantly. When he became convinced, as he did in his last years, that he was becoming penniless, he quickly "proved" that he paid the Exchequer ?147 for every ?100 he earned...
...taking the course of repression. At week's end Foreign Minister Alberto Martin Artajo told the Spanish cabinet that the Barcelona strike had stepped up an "anti-Spanish offensive abroad by the Communist press and radio." The cabinet appointed Rafael Hierro Martinez, a friend of Franco, to be Inspector General of the Armed Police, charged him with preventing uprisings in the Barcelona pattern...
After 25 Hours. Hours later, an inspector announced what Shea and McCombe had been expecting. He had orders to confiscate McCombe's pictures. Two plainclothes detectives took Shea to the TIME office in the First National Bank of Boston building. There Shea was forced to turn over McCombe's films. The cops also demanded Shea's files-"not everything, but just that touching on La Prensa and politics." Shea refused. The cops, with the all-important films in hand, relented...
Oddly enough, news of the wholesale frauds never got beyond the locker rooms until last December, when a group of indignant workers quietly laid the whole thing before postal authorities. Fortnight ago, Boston's Chief Post Office Inspector Tennyson Jefferson and 42 inspectors swooped down on the annex. Though they had picked a bad night (business was slack because of the railroad strike), they found 28 time cards punched for men who never showed up, and enough evidence to convince them that the Government had been bilked out of between $4 and $5,000,000 in the last four...