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...word from Elder Statesman Saionji, 85, steadies Nippon. To Elder Statesman Root, pleading once more for the World Court last fortnight, the Senate and nation turned deaf ears, paid heed instead to the vocabularies of William Randolph Hearst and Father Charles E. Coughlin...
...House with a heavy gold watch chain garlanded across what, in the days of Roosevelt I, would have been jocularly called his bay window. Formerly he was Governor of Oregon. His present wife and secretary is Oregon's former State Librarian. At 73, he is slightly deaf and his voice quavers, but he has a great air of wisdom. He also has six children (by his first wife) and he is Congress' chief advocate of permitting the dissemination of birth control information. Last week on the 21st anniversary of the birth control movement, the Judiciary Committee...
...swarms of U. S. art students now spend their summers trying to learn to paint landscapes, three black-hatted French judges sat down last week to try a notorious old case. On trial were Jean Charles Millet, pudgy grandson of the late great Jean null (The Angelus) Millet, and deaf Paul Cazot, charged with forging and selling at great prices an unknown number of presumptive Millet canvases...
...Bank without a Vault,"* had been handling Reparations payments under the Young Plan. When the Young Plan payments were stopped by President Hoover's moratorium, Banker Fraser helped develop a profitable sideline in League of Nations loans and transfers among European banks. Last week President Fraser, deaf to all pleas from his B. I. S. associates, announced that he would not be a candidate for reelection when his term expires next May. Observers anticipated that since B. I. S. was originally founded to promote the gold standard which the U. S. has now abandoned, Mr. Fraser's successor...
Year after year successive Presidents of the U. S. turned a deaf ear-until Depression's 1933. Then with statesmen fully alive to the burden, political and military, of U. S. responsibility for 7,083 islands half a world away, with U. S. sugar producers equally dismayed by the flood of duty-free sugar coming thence, Congress at last offered the Philippines their freedom, after a ten-year trial period. Out from under the first offer Philippine politicians managed to wriggle. When it was renewed last spring, and served up on a silver platter by Franklin Roosevelt himself...