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...Election betting on Socialist-turned-Democrat Upton Sinclair plunged to even money. Forthwith the stocks of six big California enterprises listed on the New York Stock Exchange sloughed off $60,000,000 in total value in one day. The market value of the securities of California's three leading utilities has dropped $100,000,000 since the August primaries when Mr. Sinclair was nominated. A list of 20 California stocks (including preferreds) has dropped 16% in the last five weeks...
...treated the five sisters alike-bringing a greater scholastic seriousness and independence, a simpler and more self-reliant social life, an easing of campus restrictions, a virtually doubled enrollment in economics, social studies and fine arts. But he would have been rash as well as obtuse if he had forthwith concluded that the sisters are all alike...
...Manchester, N. H., the Amoskeag Mills, largest single cotton textile factory in the U. S., shut down its chemical plant, then closed completely. In Manhattan, the "Explosion Conference" of underwriters announced that insurance rates on textile mills and mill villages, due to "riot or civil commotion," should be forthwith tripled. At Gastonia, N. C., heart of the Southern textile belt, the Loray Mill of Manville Jenckes Corp. announced that its employes had petitioned to continue work. At Charlotte, N. C., union leaders held what amounted to an old-fashioned Southern camp-meeting, with mighty prayers for success. In Paterson...
...Berlin tireless Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, found time to order the German Post Office to print an issue of propaganda stamps urging return of the Saar to Germany and put them on sale forthwith. To give the League Council pause when it meets next month, Dr. Goebbels announced fantastic plans to cover "25 square miles" with a stupendous mass meeting of Germans and Saar citizens whom he planned to bring in innumerable special trains to Coblenz...
...claiming these British oilmen must be cheating his Treasury since they no longer paid in as big royalties as before (TIME, Dec. 12, 1932). Seething with hate of "the British dogs," Persia's Press, which always exactly mirrors His Majesty's views, called for the auctioning off forthwith of "the Persian heritage of oil" to the highest foreign bidder...