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...Chiang Kaishek. Next day they conferred with the Chinese Ministers of Economic Affairs and Communications, the Vice Minister of Finance, and others. They held a press conference, attended by almost 40 reporters, largely Chinese. Businessman Nelson took complete command of the situation, spoke with off-the-record frankness. The gist of his on-the-record remarks: the U.S. mission's primary purpose was to set up the means for licking Japan. But it was also going to study the economic situation, present and prospective, with a view to immediate and postwar problems...
Able, Rome-wise New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews spent weeks digging out the facts in the strange and murky death of Mussolini's son-in-law, flashy Count Galeazzo Ciano (TIME, Jan. 17). Last week Matthews cabled his findings from Rome. Their gist...
...helmeted pilots sat in the ready-room and waited. They had been briefed. For once. Jumping Joe ran out of conversation. Finally he got out his Testament and began to read aloud the gist Psalm...
Inflation, long out of the news, returned to the headlines. But it frightened no one. On the eve of the first anniversary of his "hold-the-line" order, Franklin Roosevelt read to his press conference a report from four of his economic high command.* Its gist...
...good are U.S. mental hospitals? They are not as bad as the 18th Century Bedlams, which were a cross between a filthy jail and a callous human zoo; but they are nowhere near up to the humane and efficient standard of U.S. hospitals proper. This was the gist of a report made last week by a New York State Commission...