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...course," said M. Haine. The man in tweeds put through his call and darted out into the night again. An hour and a half later he was back, with his knees muddy and his jacket torn...
...functions efficiently the press is still out in the cold and if the newspapers really fear for their circulation there are to be further developments. Perhaps the papers will refuse to print radio programs except as paid advertising. And feature announcers in the class with Keyholer Winchell will be torn between two fires. Fired by the newspapers they will no longer by valuable to the radio and cashiered by the radio much of their national prestige will be lost. TERTIUS...
Sharp, frequent and dramatic have been the family fights within Texas Corp., biggest independent oil company in the U. S. But nothing ever emerged for public inspection from Texaco's battle-torn board room until last autumn when Ralph Clinton Holmes, ousted as the company's chairman, gave Texaco's stockholders a flashback of internal tussles (TIME, Oct. 2). Mr. Holmes's heaviest fire was directed at John H. ("Jack") Lapham, chairman of the executive committee and one of three representatives of the Lapham family, whose meddling, said Mr. Holmes, always brought on unhappy boardroom scenes...
...Palace of Justice this week Deputy Andre Hesse, onetime lawyer of Swindler Stavisky, was set upon and his robe nearly torn off by an indignant young attorney who kept shouting "How dare you show yourself here!" Pummeling each other the two rolled on the floor until separated and dragged before the president of the Paris Bar for a slashing reprimand...
...unpleasantly reminiscent of General Boulanger to the harried cabinet of M. Chautemps. Thousands of police and brass-hatted Republican Guardsmen guard the Chamber of Deputies and other government buildings. Meanwhile, mobs of otherwise respectable citizens scurry up and down the boulevards, battling with the constabulary. The streets have been torn up and impromptu fortifications constructed; all cafes have closed their doors and brought their tables inside; rioters have braved the charges of the gendarmes and ruined all efforts of mounted squadrons to disperse them by tossing magnesium flares at their horses...