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...Lawyer-Lobbyist William Patterson MacCracken Jr., onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce, who last year allowed papers subpoenaed by the Senate's airmail investigation to be removed from his files and destroyed. After a hide & seek with the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934, et seq.) MacCracken was caught, sentenced to ten days in jail for contempt of the Senate. He appealed all the way to the Supreme Court which last week told him that it would not void his sentence...
Cheered by the Congress, too, was the shooting of 117 Russians to avenge the murder of Joseph Stalin's famed "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10 et seq.). To replace Friend Kirov in the Politbureau of the Party ("Soviet Big Ten"), Dictator Stalin put forward his hard-boiled nephew. Comrade Anastasy Mikoyan. In 1919 British troops occupying the city of Baku, Russia's oil metropolis, seized 26 self-styled "Bolshevik Commissars," shot all except smart Stalin's smart nephew who managed to escape. Last week the Soviet Congress acclaimed him as definitely a new Big Shot...
Ferdinand Pecora made many a millionaire sweat and squirm as he ferreted out Wall Street's secrets for the Senate Banking & Currency Committee (TIME, Feb. 27, 1933 et seq.). For his services the swart, Sicilian-born inquisitor received $300 per month and the thanks of his President in the form of a one-year appointment to the Securities & Exchange Commission (TIME, July 9). Last week Lawyer Pecora received from New York's Governor Lehman the reward which he really wanted. To serve the unexpired eight years of a resigned justice's term. Governor Lehman appointed Mr. Pecora...
...agents of Dictator Mussolini hastily withdrew from circulation last week an Italian map on which it appeared that Power of Trinity I was correct when he protested to the League that the towns in which Italian and Abyssinian troops recently clashed were on Abyssinian soil (TIME, Dec. 24 et seq.) Mussolini now contends that the "Ualual Incident," a three-day pitched battle in which 30 Italians and 110 Abyssinians died, occurred on Italian soil, the frontier line never having been exactly drawn. With the telltale map whisked out of the way, the League Council sat down to hear from Italian...
...monster collective farm near Saratov peasants decided to do something about the assassination of Dictator Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10 et seq.). Slapping together improvised scenery to represent Leningrad Communist Party Headquarters, where the crime was committed, they re-enacted it before a fascinated audience which came from miles around. As in real life, Comrade Kirov was shot by another Comrade, both men correctly represented as Communists in good standing...