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...Inspector Bony, suspended from the Sûreté Gènérale in January, was the only person to make any factual advance in the great Stavisky case last week. Fortnight ago Inspector Bony discovered the missing stubs for the checks with which Swindler Stavisky is supposed to have bribed his way to power. Last week in the municipal pawnshop of Orleans he discovered the missing jewels. After Stavisky's death no trace of them could be found. Inspector Bony discovered a bright-eyed pretty little mannikin who led him straight to the Orleans pawnshop...
...Stavisky's death hundreds of checks that he had scattered about Paris to lubricate his crooked schemes were found. Nearly all had been made out to cash. The stubs of the checks, presumably with the recipients' names, were missing. When this was discovered Chief Inspector Bony was promptly suspended from the Sureté Generate. With a month to think things over, Inspector Bony decided last week that the Government really meant business in its efforts to solve the Stavisky mystery. Back to his superiors went he with a suggestion that if he were reinstated he could find...
...birthplace. U. S. correspondents investigated privately, could find no signs of unusual activity on either side of the border. From Berlin they learned that Handsome Adolf himself had suppressed news of the Habicht ultimatum in Germany and was thinking of pensioning or retiring him from his post as "Inspector General for Austria...
...last week a Mexican radio inspector appeared in Villa Acuna to enforce the closing order. Villagers threatened to lynch him. Stomping off, he returned a few days later with troops to shut down XER for good. Dr. Brinkley, ordered communications officials, would dismantle his station within 30 days or they would do it themselves at his expense...
...American stage. Tremendously flattered though the Department may be to find itself designated as dramatic critic for the nation, the fact remains that art has never lent itself very well to government supervision. The ban on Ulysses, which was the result of the cultural prejudices of a certain inspector of customs in New York is a good example of the sort of thing which occurs when the state turns to the weighing of talent. But governments will try anything and the Actors' Equity may ultimately come to doubt the wisdom of inviting the government to meddle with the theater...