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It was obvious that the Senator intended to filibuster until midnight for which adjournment was set. Half a dozen Senators protested. Washington's Schwellenbach, ringleader of the "freshman" group who made the Kingfish toe the mark during his previous filibuster (TIME., June 24), sat down behind him to harry...
When they came to register under the law with the Securities & Exchange Commission, more than 100 U. S. corporations grew self-conscious about the salaries and bonuses paid their officers. In the hope that SEC would not publish such information, these companies filed their salary lists "confidentially." Last week SEC...
When Comrade Kaganovich, hardest-boiled protege of the hard-boiled Dictator, was appointed Commissar for Transport, the most broken-down part of Russia's economic structure was her railways. For years Comrade Stalin had been having railwaymen shot after every wreck, ignoring their pleas that they desperately needed new...
The Russian Revolution provided the great climax and anticlimax of his life. As a member of the Red Cross Mission during Kerensky's term of office, deeply influenced by Major Raymond Robins, he understood the meaning of revolutionary developments that baffled and outraged Allied diplomats, generals and political experts...
Representative Brewster sat down directly across the table from Chairman O'Connor and, with many a nervous grimace, proceeded to tell his story. In his pursuit of the Quoddy millions, said he, he had been vastly aided by Mr. Corcoran, government agent delegated to smooth the dam's...