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During the week Secretary Ickes made the following additional news: ¶ To help dispose of the growing supply of Government rum made by the Virgin Islands Co.. he announced that a specialist of his department was at work devising a cocktail recipe. Object was to stimulate sale of Virgin Island rum when it comes of potable age in 1940. ¶Since 12,000,000 sq. ft. of floor space in 101 Government buildings plus 2,500,000 sq. ft. in 103 rented buildings is no longer adequate for the growing horde of New Dealers in Washington, Secretary Ickes...
...youngsters were going to attempt a coup d'état and hurl white-whiskered statesmen of the French Republic into the icy waters of the Seine (TIME, Dec. 9). Not at all anxious for such a ducking is bewhiskered old Radical Socialist Deputy Henri Guernut, considered a great specialist in French political dirt because he was Chairman of the Chamber's Stavisky Committee. Accusingly last week Old Guernut shouted across the Chamber at Premier Pierre Laval: "The plotting of the Fascist Leagues is undeniable! Their object is to substitute for the Republic a Fascist regime. They themselves avow...
Well pleased with himself last week was William Coleman Bitting Jr., energetic head of the St. Louis security house of Bitting & Co., specialist in church bond issues. Two summers ago, acting for his bondholders, Mr. Bitting set about trying to recover as much as possible of some $3,000,000 in issues floated for and defaulted by the house's most vexatious clients, organizations of the Methodist Episcopal Church (TIME, July 30, 1934). Year ago one of these issues was up for argument in U. S. District Court in Portland, Ore. After adjourning one day, Judge James Alger...
...chorus-girl in London, 21-year-old Sarah Churchill, daughter of Winston Churchill, announced: "My parents are putting up no objections. I made up my mind to become an actress when I was in socks." Down upon a San Francisco landing field flew Cinemactress Claudette Colbert and a throat specialist named Dr. Joel J. Pressman. Because an airline clerk had booked them as "Dr. & Mrs. J. J. Pressman," newscameramen were waiting. Deserting Miss Colbert, Dr. Pressman fled across the field...
...expected after his fall in the ventilator shaft in Matthews, in which he suffered a compound fracture of his right arm, a dislocated shoulder, and a severe concussion which left him unconscious for five days, and delirious for two weeks more. He is under the care of the brain specialist, Dr. Munroe, at the Boston City Hospital, where he was taken on October 27, at the time of the accident...