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...juggling his securities among them he had fraudulently established the losses which he claimed in his 1931 tax return (TIME, March 4). All facts & figures came from Mr. Mellon's longtime private secretary, Howard M. Johnson, a frail, grey little man seated pale and trembling behind a stack of ledgers and account books. In the handsome, high-ceilinged courtroom, with only a scattering of typical courtroom loungers looking on, Mr. Mellon sat each day at the counsel table beside Lawyer Hogan. Mostly he seemed bored and restless, glancing often at his chainless watch, appearing to doze...
...cellar of the Cuban Embassy at Washington. General Carlos Garcia Velez rummaged through the last dusty stack of state documents. Then he mopped his dirty forehead, admitted failure in his search. For weeks, General Garcia Velez had been looking for the original Message to Garcia, made famed by the late Elbert Hubbard. In 1898, he knew his father, the Rebel Chieftain Calixto Garcia, received a momentous message from President McKinley asking his aid against the Spaniards. Like Writer Hubbard, General Carlos Garcia Velez was sure that it had been a written document and that Col. Andrew Summers Rowan had "sealed...
...Manhattan's art critics, sat himself down to test the library's resources. Shooting his cuffs, he called for material on Botticelli's Abundance in the British Museum and the portrait of Alessandro del Borro in Berlin. The telautograph squiggled and in a few minutes stack girls emerged with two folders. Critic Cortissoz' little goatee waggled with pleasure to find attached to an excellent photograph of the Botticelli drawing the date, a list of all the reproductions that have ever been published, all previous owners, all exhibitions at which the original has been shown, along with...
Since a large proportion of the students of the University have already seen "The Barretts" in the film or play version or both, or have at least heard enough about it, we shall add only a few remarks to the ever increasing stack of reviews already in existence. But if there be in the University any people who have not yet seen this picture, we urge them to take this final opportunity. Those who saw Miss Cornell's performance can go without fear that they will be too greatly disappointed, for in the screen version the emphasis has been shifted...
...glorification. Being thus glorified last week was one of the Academy's most distinguished members, Charles Dana Gibson. On the walls of its uptown Manhattan headquarters hung the largest exhibition he has ever given, 162 drawings and paintings dating from an anti-Tammany cartoon of 1888 to a stack of flashily painted portrait sketches and landscapes done this summer at Dark Harbor, Maine...