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...cast his 1932 campaign in practically the same mold. He refused to appear conscious that he had a man named Franklin Delano Roosevelt running against him. Declining to take the stump, he appeared to set the Presidency above partisanship. Instead of advertising his adversary by hand-to-hand combat, he advertised his relief program by intense activity at the White House...
...Should anybody attempt to obstruct solution of the Manchurian question, we should be obliged to combat such interferers relentlessly no matter who they may be. ... Our kingly way is to guide the policy of Manchoukuo in a spirit identical with the glorious regime of benevolence and justice peculiar to our imperial destiny to control the moral and spiritual advance of the world...
...from her load (TIME, June 27). Last week Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett revealed how the Akron is reversing that practice. When atmospheric conditions make it impossible for the ship to land without valving out part of her costly helium, her commander flashes a radio call for two combat planes. The planes fly out from Lakehurst, hook on to the Akron. The 6,000 lb. added ballast permits the ship to land without loss...
Quick to attempt to cash in on the brisker bond market last week was Howard Colwell Hopson, dominating figure in Associated Gas & Electric Co., who surprised his bankers last spring when he offered a "baby bond" issue just as the U. S. was selling "baby bonds" to combat hoarding (TIME, March 7). Not selling many baby bonds, not exchanging all of its new 364-day Staten Island Edison notes for maturing old ones (TIME, June 20), Mr. Hopson has lately been in a tight fix. His company must raise $18,556,000 to meet early bond maturities. Last week...
Smith on Conventions. Al Smith has been going to Democratic conventions since 1908. As a New York delegate-at-large this year, he has behind him a veteran's skill to combat a neophyte's candidacy. Writing last fortnight in the Saturday Evening Post he delivered these matured views on conventions...