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...last week did it occur to anyone in Washington to look for the Administration's pet banking villain right inside the Treasury. At a Washington conference of national bank examiners President Francis Marion Law of the American Bankers Association politely suggested that perhaps the periodic examinations were so strict that bankers feared to do anything except sit on the vault...
...door of the German Masonic Home, each felt that the rest of life held but little. But to John Ellich and Marie Kiefer came love, not death. All during one year they stole off together, held hands, whispered their emotions. But at the old folks home was a strict regulation against inmates marrying. One day, on leave, John Ellich and Marie Kiefer eloped to Manhattan. For two years after that officials of the home watched the strangely happy couple with growing suspicion, at length called them up and wrung a confession of their marriage. One of the pair, the officials...
...answer such questions as: 1) Are responsible businessmen unable to borrow from their banks? 2) Have they been refused because their credit standing has been impaired by Depression? 3) Are banks refusing loans because of a desire to stay liquid, or are the State and Federal examiners too strict? 4) Are businessmen liquidating bank loans with funds obtained from Federal agencies...
...Editorial discretion on the nudity of a private citizen took different forms. Some editors, perhaps mindful that Photographer Chapman was jeopardized by Pennsylvania's strict laws against contributing to the delinquency of a minor, tossed the prints aside. In Pittsburgh the Sun-Telegraph printed the swimming pose. So did the New York Daily News and the Omaha Bee-News. Hearst's New York American delicately restored Kaletta's bathing suit before publication. At least one newspaper dared to print Kaletta naked on the rock. It was the Knoxville Journal...
...scandal that never withers is Rumania's hardy perennial that munitions are sold in Bucharest on a strict basis of bribe-as-you-go. Disclosures of the week concerned the deal with Skoda, Czechoslovakia's Munitions Trust, which backfired when General Zika Popescu of the Royal Rumanian Army put a bullet through his brain (TIME, April 10, 1933). Just what had been at stake General Cihofhi of the Royal Ordnance Service volubly revealed to a Parliamentary committee last week...