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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victims to date: President Roosevelt, Ambassadors Joseph Kennedy and William Bullitt, Paul McNutt, the U. S. press, the House of Morgan, the Foreign Policy Association, such educators as Harvard's James Conant and Yale's Charles Seymour. For censorship and propaganda, says Mr. Sargent, Britain last year spent at least...
...impeccably clothed, British-born wine merchant, Broun spent four years at Harvard, never got his degree. He tried three times to make the Crimson, failed each time. In 1910 he went to work as sports editor of the New York Morning Telegraph, was fired two years later. Then he went to the Tribune as a reporter, became a rewrite man, copyreader, Sunday magazine editor, dramatic critic, book reviewer, finally columnist...
...secret is it that Andrew Mellon, before he made his gift to Washington three years ago, spent much time trying to persuade his friend Joe Widener to join him, since their two collections were perhaps the world's finest in private hands. Last time the two met, Mellon vowed, "I'll have you in with me yet." The addition of the Widener paintings and the fine Italian collection presented last summer by 5-10-25? Storeman Samuel Henry Kress (TIME, July 24) would make Washington's National Gallery one of the great galleries of the world...
...Neatest financial trick of the week was accomplished by Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace: By reducing the Government subsidy on cotton exports, he helped boost the price of cotton. He originally got a $36,000,000 fund with which to subsidize exports. He spent about $32,500,000, paying 1½?a Ib. to subsidize exports of 4,344,434 bales. To conserve the balance of this fund, the subsidy was cut in half, midnight, Dec. 5. A few days later, it was cut to 2/5?, again last week to 1/5?. Anxious to share in the Government subsidy before...
When the New Deal was putting over its "Death Sentence" Public Utility Holding Company Act, Associated Gas and Electric's Howard Hopson spent $1,000,000 lobbying against it. With his roly-poly body and ear-to-ear smile, he became the utility industry's "mystery man" and lone wolf. Last week Hopson was hopelessly ill with heart disease, and Associated (a $1,000,000,000 system) was in financial trouble such as never caught up with it when he was at the helm...