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...Alter Ego. Col. Howe, the President-elect's alter ego, was born in Saratoga, N. Y. Twenty-two years ago he was Albany correspondent for the old New York Herald, when State Senator Roosevelt arrived at the Capitol. A warm friendship developed between them. "Franklin" took "Louis" to the Navy Department with him in 1913 as private secretary, had him at his side during the 1920 campaign. Col. Howe is credited with digging up the "Happy Warrior" phrase with which Mr. Roosevelt twice nominated Al Smith. He handles the Governor's private mail, private business, private house in Manhattan. During...
Herr von Papen then served notice that his Cabinet proposes to revise the German constitution. Berlin rumor said that the word "republic" will be omitted. Conceivably the von Papen Cabinet, acting by presidential decree, could so alter the fundamental law of Germany as to prevent the Hitlerites, who won 14,000,000 votes in the last Reichstag election (TIME, Aug. 8), from scoring further gains. Said Satevepost correspondent Isaac Marcos-son, returning from Germany last week: "Chancellor von Papen will disenfranchise 50% of Adolf Hitler's followers if he raises the voting age, as he may, to 25 years...
Early this year the Great Eight publishers elected to alter the Graphic because it resembled Sphere too closely. At the same time Editor William Comyns Beaumont of Bystander was considering quitting the Great Eight group to start a weekly of his own, an illustrated smartchart something like the New Yorker, to be named either The Londoner or St. James's. Instead the publishers let Editor Beaumont take charge of the Graphic, replacing Editor Alan John Bott...
...situation rests on a foundation far broader than mere statecraft. Pressure upon the U. S. (if it is exerted); scurvy tricks (if they are played at the World Economic Conference); the refusal of the U. S. Congress to cancel another cent (if it refuses)?none of these things alter what are probably the paramount facts: 11 that the U. S. will not fight to collect from the Allies; 2) that the Allies will pay the U. S. proportionately no more than they receive from Germany*; 3) that the German people believe they cannot pay and are determined that they...
...Management Methods, the heavy review rank held until last week, when Review of Reviews swallowed Doubleday-Doran's World's Work. Beginning with the August issue, Review of Reviews will carry the name of World's Work with its own on the cover but will not alter editorial content...