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FORTUNE, December, p. 114, col. 3: "His early schooling included many summers abroad, a term at Nauheim, and the very easy and fluent command of French and German which gives him so great an advantage over his predecessor in dealing with Europeans." May I inquire which is correct...
...virtual control of the Tyrol and was loudly demanding that the little Chancellor live up to his promise to end parliamentary government and attack Marxism in Austria (TIME, Feb. 12). Chancellor Dollfuss departed for Budapest and handed extraordinary powers to Vice Chancellor Fey, the Heimwehr's second in command...
Several months back Crocodile editors got the Soviet high command's unofficial permission to put to the jocular test the knowledge and alertness of high Soviet bureaucrats. They invented a fanciful Academy of Plans for Transcosmic Sciences and a subsidiary Trust for the Exploitation of Meteoric Iron. But they needed that high sign of Soviet officialdom, a rubber stamp. So they advertised that they had lost their rubber stamp and promptly a bureaucrat gave them permission to have one made...
...Commissar for Education. He, for one, did not bite, did not laugh. Instead he called the OGPU. One editor, arrested on a charge of trying to obtain money under false pretenses, was quickly released. But when the Crocodile set about telling the story of its hoax, the Soviet high command firmly shushed...
...present confusion in the minds of the Nazi viceroys as to which of the temperamental Hitler hierarchy to take orders from was settled at the same time. Neither club-footed Paul Joseph Goebbels, bull-necked General Göring nor strange Captain Roehm will command them, now sole rulers of the individual provinces. Their orders will be laid down by Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick...