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...temporary blanket power to reorganize New York City's government, to fix salaries arbitrarily, to declare null & void any provisions of the city charter which conflicted with his program. Occupied with fighting opposition from Tammany legislators at Albany, he was not prepared to be stopped in his bold career by a high-minded Governor. As everyone knows, Democrat Herbert Henry Lehman is the great and good friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Very sick (appendectomy) last autumn when Mayor LaGuardia won the first reform vic tory in New York City in 20 years, mild-mannered Governor Lehman was dutifully...
...Secretary Sir John Simon rose on the wings of an Italian seaplane piloted by Ace Major Attilio Biseo, veteran of the Balbo flight to Chicago. Beside Sir John sat the Duke of San Vito, a secretary in Il Duce's Foreign Office. To discuss Dictator Mussolini's bold plan to "reform" the League of Nations (TIME, Dec. 18) Sir John had come from London, pausing to enjoy the holidays at Capri before getting to business...
...when," asked bold Walter Duranty, "did you take that name?" Looking rather embarrassed, according to Duranty, Stalin replied, "Some of my comrades gave it to me in 1911 or maybe 1910. They seemed to think it suited me. You understand we 'underground' [i. e. terrorist] workers used such nicknames because we always had to hide from the Tsarist police...
...bold scheme of U. S. Director of Aeronautics Vidal for production of a small, cheap ($700) airplane got under way last week when the Public Works Administration allotted $500,000 for its development (TIME, Dec. 18). How his department would use the money, Director Vidal was not ready to say beyond repeating that the Government would not engage in manufacture. Best guess: a new company which would be formed especially to design and develop the "flivver" plane for mass production and in which the whole manufacturing industry would be represented...
Though many U. S. eugenists felt last week that the Hitler program is too bold Atlantic City Psychiatrist Dr. Cole Davis called not merely for the sterilization but for the "merciful destruction" of the incurably insane...