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...division directors. John F. Killeen (Broadcast) was Postmaster General Farley's protege; Robert T. Bartley (Telegraph) is the nephew of House Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn; A. G. Patterson (Telephone) was an assistant to Hugo LaFayette Black when he investigated air and ocean mail contracts (TIME, Oct 9, 1933 et seq.). Amiable Chairman Mc-Ninch said he would be glad to recommend all three for jobs outside...
Following their successful Nyon piracy conference of seven weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 20 et seq.), France and Britain moved last week to do something serious about the more important question of Italian volunteers in Spain. These, estimated by French military observers to number between 65.000 and 80,000 men, were last week admitted for the first time in the Italian press to number 40,000. Pouted the Italian Foreign Office's news agency, the Informazione Diplomatica: "Absolutely fantastic figures have been given and continue to be given with the evident purpose of creating a war psychosis. It is scandalous...
...Duce, after his grandiose reception by Der Führer (TIME, Oct. 4, et seq.) was in an exalted mood last week. About the time the President was speaking in Chicago, the Dictator's Milan newsorgan Il Popolo d'ltalia was printing an editorial in which Mussolini hurled blanket defiance at "capitalism, parliamentary democracy, Communism, liberalism and a certain wavering Catholicism, with which we shall settle accounts in our own fashion some day or other, are against...
...sign, as a formality, three bills just passed by the Legislature and designed to save the now economically shaky "Social Credit" regime in Alberta which pious radiorating Mr. Aberhart set up two years ago with promises to pay every citizen a monthly "dividend" of $25 (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935 et seq.). The first bill would force Alberta newspapers to give as much as one full page to presentation of the Government's views verbatim at any time upon demand, is entitled An Act Ensuring Publication of Accurate News and Information. The second would arbitrarily increase taxation of Alberta banks...
...Robinson Jeffers, almost as much famed in the U. S. for doing his writing in a stone tower, built by himself, over-looking California's Carmel Bay, as for his violent free-verse narratives and black-diamond lyrics in Tamar, Roan Stallion, The Women at Point Sur, Cawdor, et al. Jeffers' latest book, Such Counsels You Gave to Me, is predominantly in his prophetic vein. Its title-poem is a fast-moving narrative of a student's sick return from premedical school to the farm of his swinish father and mother. In an atmosphere supercharged with nervous...