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...readers in small doubt as to who was meant. All the Mayor would say when questioned was: "Any answer I might make would put me on the spot. I have paid my income tax every year and have nothing to fear on that score." But when the Herex finally broadcast the fact that Ed Kelly had failed to report income of $450,000 in 1926-28 and had settled with the U.S. Treasury in May 1932 for $70,000 in taxes and $35,000 in penalties, it was bigger news for Chicago than the Century of Progress...
...earshot of plebeian bathers. During their rowboat conference the two statesmen undoubtedly discussed: 1) the Italian-Austrian-Hungarian trade pact negotiated by Il Duce and Premier Julius Gömbös in Rome (TIME, Aug. 7); 2) the fact that anti-Dollfuss propaganda was again being broadcast to Austria from German radio stations last week, despite the Hitler Government's assurance to Premier Mussolini that such propaganda would cease (TIME, Aug. 21); and 3) the general question of whether Italy will support Chancellor Dollfuss in his efforts to prevent a Nazi coup and union of Austria with Germany...
...helping the U. S. businessman sell his goods abroad. If Johannesburg wanted washing machines or Brisbane underwear or Budapest typewriters or Edmonton corkscrews, what came to be known as "Hoover's Foreign Legion" would hear of it first and flash the news to the Department which then broadcast trade orders to U. S. industry. Herbert Hoover thought foreign trade was able to make or break domestic prosperity and to this end the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce was his favorite lever in trying to pry a sodden nation out of the Depression. Before he left office the bureau...
...message from the White House in which President Roosevelt said: "I am convinced that the restoration of political peace is a necessary and preliminary step on the way to Cuba's economic recovery." Last week the Oppositionists, though their leaders still maintained contact with Mediator Welles, broadcast throughout Cuba from a pirate radio station: "Make these August strikes the August Revolution!" Ambassador Welles, after keeping completely mum through a long series of conferences with President Machado, finally said, "The situation is so grave that it is impossible to forecast what may develop." Ambassador Welles was correct. Few days later...
...Belfast went wild when Edward of Wales arrived to open a $5,000,000 present, the massive Northern Ireland Parliament Building, located inconveniently far out of town on Stormont Hill (TIME, Nov. 28). Lest Republicans in the Free State become too irate, His Royal Highness' speech was not broadcast...