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Into Hyde Park next day trooped Mr. Ickes and his new Undersecretary of the Interior Charles West; Mr. Hopkins and his crack statistician, Corrington Gill; Frank Walker, Rex Tugwell, Budget Director Daniel Bell. Morning, afternoon & evening pencils scratched, words flew across the big library table in Hyde Park House. When the visitors set out for Washington late at night Mr. Hopkins looked chipper, Mr. Ickes glum...
Fascist workmen in Trieste lately built for Poland a crack 15,000-ton liner as fine for her size as Benito Mussolini's 54,000-ton Rex. Named the Pilsudski, this spruce motor ship was delivered by her Italian builders last week at Gdynia, was paid for with 600,000 tons of Polish coal which Dictator Mussolini is now burning in the engines of Italy's State Railway. As the Pilsudski steamed in, by far the largest liner ever to fly Poland's flag, proud Poles who had arrived by excursion trains from all over...
...Century and the Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited were too slow, demanded "overnight service of 15 hours" between New York and Chicago. Next day, by a coincidence, the New York Central and the Pennsylvania joined in announcing that on Sept. 29 they would cut the schedule of their two crack trains from 17 hours to a new record...
...addition to the regular schedule which has as its climax the H-Y-P triangular meet to be held this year at. Princeton, the Crimson team will meet the crack group Tulane is sending from the West on November...
Against a solution along these lines the chief forces this week were: 1) Anglo-Saxon public opinion that one must crack down on a "Big Bully"; 2) the Socialist and Trade Union movements on the continent and in Britain which ceaselessly petitioned the League to hurl "sanctions" against Boss Mussolini; and 3) Soviet Russia whose suave Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff unleased at Geneva a strong Red speech for Peace and against Fascist dreams of Empire...