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...Economic Conference]. I say without hesitation that before many months have passed the United States authorities will be anxious to see their dollar as stable as our own currency. . . . If the [NRA] experiment fails it means another period of depression in the United States and that cannot occur without hav ing its effect on us." Same night in London the Roosevelt experiment was sardonically described by Sir Josiah Stamp, rotund Board Chairman of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, a Director of the Bank of England and a leading Empire economist often consulted by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. "They began...
...tense, vital leadership was its only hope for salvation. Ten imported guest conductors had driven players and audiences into a state of lethargy, but Golschmann managed to inject enough spirit into four concerts to earn a two-year contract. This autumn the St. Louis Symphony has been unique in hav-ing its highest seat-sale in history, a 12% increase over last year's. Part of this is due to the enthusiasm St. Louis ladies have for their new conductor...
Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, hav-ing swallowed a Red Cross pin; former Governor Alfred Alexander Taylor, 83, of Tennessee, in Johnson City, possibly of pneumonia; Sophie former Queen of Greece, sister of Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Frankfurt-am-Main, following an operation; James Lewis Kraft, chairman of Kraft-Phenix Cheese Co., in Chicago, following an operation; former President Augusto Bernardino Leguia of Peru, in Lima, of pneumonia; Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, in Sarasota, Fla., of exhaustion after 43 speaking engagements in 48 days; General John Joseph ("Blackjack") Pershing, 71, in Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, of a severe cold...
...well aware, Major General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, U.S.M.C., has two congressional medals. Last month he defended his right to the second one by loudly protesting aspersions cast by the Haitian Minister to the U. S. (TIME, May 4). Last week, the State Department hav-ing accepted the Haitian Minister's equivocal apology, General Butler took time by the forelock and refreshed the country's memory of how he won his first medal. His immediate audience was a group of grocers assembled in the same Philadelphia Elks' Club where General Butler...
...James Henry Gundy of C. P. & P. loomed as logical Moses to lead the indus-try from its factional wilderness. Abitibi Power & Paper Co. and St. Lawrence Corp. would be possible allies of C. P. & P. in such a union. International Paper & Power Corp. might head another group; or-hav- ing lost the Hearstpaper business after 1933-might turn wholly to its major interest, Power, and pool its Canadian newsprint activities with other Canadian producers...