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...Chicago sped Civil Aeronautics Bu-reaumen to investigate the third fatal crash on U. S. airliners since Aug. 30, after a flawless 17 months in which no airline passenger was killed. The cause of Trip 21's crash was a matter for public hearing, laboratory inspection of her engines, props and other remains. First news reports were that ice brought her down. United denied this report, pointed out that if Trip 21 was taking on ice. Pilot Scott would have reported it as airline rules prescribe, pointed out, too, that many other runs came in around the same time...
Though both Rumanian and German troops promptly occupied key buildings in Bucharest, murder followed murder as the hours sped by. Twenty Carolists were killed in the Ploesti oil fields. There the riots quickly turned from politics to racial hysteria, and 2,000 Jews were said to have perished. More were killed in Galati, where Iron Guardists stormed and slaughtered through the Jewish quarter...
...elusive figure to Knoxville citizens. For months before his crime the press had denounced his influence with judges and police, had tried in vain to get his picture. Then one night a Knoxville Journal photographer, lean, bald Howard Jones, cruised by Ed McNew's office, flashed a bulb, sped away with a snapshot...
...Duty (1937) was hailed and reprinted in the Anglophobe Hearst press; his Blood Is Cheaper Than Water (1939) glibly tracked the U. S. "war party" from J. P. Morgan's to Communist headquarters and back. Last week Quincy Howe, his Anglophobia somewhat chastened since France and Chamberlain fell, sped his mercurial mind over the whole field of war news...
...sped East the Republican nominee, still learning, changed tactics sharply. He dropped his heated denunciations of Franklin Roosevelt. But he roasted the men around the President as unscrupulous, cynical schemers, intelligentsia, disbelievers in democracy, anxious to hold on to their power. This kind of talk went well everywhere, in Democratic and Republican territory alike. Mr. Willkie had discovered an open secret: the only popular New Dealer is Franklin Roosevelt...