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National Affairs: Right Hand

The new acting head of the U. S. Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr., was not trained as a banker. Last week, one of his first official acts was to appoint a brilliant financial technician as his right hand man: Earle Bailie of Manhattan. Although really shouldering the job of Undersecretary, Earle Bailie was named merely a "special assistant." Hence he does not have to be confirmed by the Senate which might not look with favor on 1) a partner in the private banking firm of J. & W. Seligman; 2) the creator and head of...

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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