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...Berlin, U. S. Ambassador Hugh Wilson called on Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to explain in diplomatic language that German spying, though stupid and relatively fruitless, is annoying and insulting...
Tony Fokker might have gone on to explain that he had his eye on a shipbuilding business to replace a U. S. aircraft career that ended when the Department of Commerce grounded his transport planes after the mysterious Rockne crash (TIME, April 6, 1931). But at that point a telephone extension buzzed. He caught up the receiver. From across 3,500 miles of sea came a familiar voice. "Hello, momma," boomed Fokker happily, and in mingled English and Dutch described to his mother in Holland the scene on New York City's Harlem...
Directors of the school are Misses Marguerite Gilmore and Jean Carter. Stocky, blue-eyed Miss Gilmore, besides directing workers' education for the State of Illinois, has worked in factory towns herself. On the staff is a labor representative to interpret the students' questions to the faculty, explain the answers. This year the school will deal especially with the Wagner Act, Social Security, and what they mean to workers...
...different systems of examinations-by the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Comptroller of the Currency, and the States-bothered bankers was only one of the reasons the Administration wanted them unified. Of more immediate concern was a belief that the various stiff restrictions on bank investments might explain the fact that today U. S. banks have $2,780,000,000 in excess reserves sitting idle. This second idea of Mr. Roosevelt's did not appear until last fortnight. Until then a committee of underlings had been absorbed solely in the technicalities of unifying the existing examinations. Fortnight...
...experts still rely on their projected coaxial cables to bring television to the north of England, explain that Ormesby Bank reception was possible only because of its 700-ft. elevation, high mast, ideal atmospheric conditions. BBC can guarantee none of these reception assets to all Yorkshiremen...