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...dire presentiment which caused devout little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss to send his young wife and chubby children away to Italy with the words "You will be safe where you are going" (TIME, July 23) was fulfilled last week by a grisly and relentless fate...
...presence in Manhattan last week of fox-bearded Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, that he might be organizing a rescue party. After the Nazi assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss (see p. 17). British editors raised a chorus of demands that Germany be left to her fate...
...Harrison, as head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank which has exercised a dominating influence over the entire Federal Reserve System and the U. S. Treasury, led New York influences in counseling the deflation policy of the Hoover administration. ... It was your personal fate through lack of understanding of monetary forces to be the central figure in the world's greatest, most inexcusable and most costly tragedy of financial leadership. I ask by what right do you now presume to initiate even a partial return to your policies which have been tested and proved so ruinous...
...Carolina, Senator Smith developed a violent feeling that Dr. Tugwell, not being a dirt farmer, was unfit to be the first man to fill the brand new office of Undersecretary of Agriculture. Both practical questions were answered in the affirmative. At the last minute, while Dr. Tugwell's fate hung in the balance, Reuben Gosnell's appointment came through to the Capitol. Although Senator Smith had committed himself too far to back down, the Senate by the over whelming majority of 53 to 24 confirmed Dr. Tugwell. Although only six Democrats voted against confirmation, there was many another...
...owner's wife and child; Ch'en's attempted murder; the crowded lines of wounded Communists lying in the station, waiting to be taken out and shot. Man's Fate is not a pleasant book but few readers will soon forget their encounter with it. The Author, at 32, is already acknowledged as a front-rank European writer. Son of a French civil servant, he went to Indo-China at 20. made an archaeological expedition to Cambodia and Siam, was not only an eyewitness of some of China's bloodiest revolutionary years...