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...successful copywriter in a London agency. More than that, she is a member of London's famed Detection Club, an informal organization for promoting honesty and high literary standards in fictional crime-solving. "No Mumbo-Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Death Rays, not even Trap Doors." This, sworn on the oath "as you hope to increase your sales," is part of the ritual of the Detection Club, devised by such members as Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesterton. Year ago appeared The Floating Admiral, joint production of 13 members, a chapter by each. But most of the infrequent and irregular...
...work in three years. An Army doctor listened to Fiore's heart, thumped his chest, looked down his throat, passed him as physically fit. Fiore Rizzo signed a blank authorizing the Government to pay $25 of his $30 monthly wage to his family, swore a 250-word oath which he did not fully understand and was shipped off to an Army post near New Rochelle as the first recruit in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
...Federal Trade Commission is made a registration office for all securities to be sold in interstate commerce. Registration fee: 1/100 of 1% of the value of the issue. Facts to be supplied the Commission under oath by all interested parties include a complete and detailed statement of the issuing company's capitalization, its stock setup, the purpose of the issue, bonuses and commissions to be retained by the underwriters and the amount to be returned to capital investment. To register a foreign government security the U. S. selling syndicate must state the object of the loan, its bonuses...
...summoned to the Feldmarschall's office, and Handsome Adolf meekly backed down. He was willing to call off the boycott, he realized its folly, but what could he do? Orders could not stop it, the Nazis would run wild. President von Hindenburg reminded his Chancellor of his oath to defend the rights of all law-abiding citizens. He threatened to declare martial law and abolish the Government. Then a compromise was reached: the boycott would be declared, but for nine hours on Saturday only. And it must be peaceful...
...Larson, the airplane pilot who only last month flew from the Akron to shore in the Canal Zone to visit his wife; among them Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell, co-winner of last year's International Balloon Races in Switzerland, and youthful Lieut. George C. Calnan who took the Olympic oath for all U. S. entrants in last year's Olympic Games; among them Rear Admiral Moffett, the vigorous, 63-year-old seadog who commanded the U. S. S. Chester during the U. S. occupation of Veracruz in 1914, and who later became the virtual custodian of the Navy...