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...bill in question was the 104-page compromise measure patched together by a twelve-man conference committee out of the House and Senate Farm Bills passed during the special session (TIME, Dec. 20, et seq.). Since it had already been approved by the House, 263-10-135, it needed only the approval of the Senate and the signature of Franklin Roosevelt to make it the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 and the law of the land. This week, after three days of debate divided between assertions by various Senators .that they did not understand what they were voting...
Private messages from Hankow, where Chinese censors worked overtime on news dispatches, reported that Chinese statesmen of the Kuomintang or National People's Party who set up the Government over ten years ago (TIME, May 2, 1927, et ante) "now fear the common people of China more than they do the Japanese, and would compromise with Japan . . . but the Communists are firm for resistance." A censored Hankow dispatch quoted Kuomintang Central Political Council Chairman Wang Ching-wei as announcing: "In the event that the Communist Party at any time revives the Class Struggle, there will be danger...
Adolf Hitler, although himself the son of a petty Austrian frontier official and although he once earned his living as a decorator's assistant, was profoundly upset by the reproof last week of General von Fritsch et al.-for clearly they were facing the Dictator with the fact that he had been the chief accomplice in uniting a German Field Marshal with the daughter of a masseuse. According to best-posted Berlin sources, the canny German generals used what they thought was their advantage over the crestfallen Fiihrer-who maintained that he had been "duped" by Bridegroom von Blomberg...
Vanderbilt University, which today has 1,607 students, a $6,775,000 plant and $22,500,000 endowment, was urged to lead the South out of. its educational wilderness. The University owes its eminence to Oliver Carmichael's predecessor, old James Hampton Kirkland (TIME, June 21, et ante), who in his 44 years as chancellor wrested control of the institution from the Methodist Church, raised its scholastic standards, boosted its endowment from slightly more than $1,000,000 to $22,500,000. Nearly all the endowment and plant came from three igth-Century industrial Titans...
...last week, when flies in de Basil's soup seemed thickest, handsome Prince Serge Obolensky (onetime Diaghilev supporter) and his cohorts of Manhattan socialites (Aldrich. Biddle. Vanderbilt et al.) and White Russians thundered to the rescue. To the Obolensky-de Basil standard rallied white-haired Choreographer Michel Fokine, several of whose past creations (Don Juan, Les Eléments, L'Epreuve d' Amour) already studded the proposed repertory of the Massine-World-Art company. Besides the exclusive future services of Choreographer Fokine, the Obolensky-de Basil company acquires the bulk of the present repertory costumes and scenery...