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...Davis called the London naval situation last week "difficult but far from hopeless.'' Though each of the Big Three had aired its views to the Press and made discreet private contacts they will not begin to negotiate officially until this week, will try to rough out a groundwork permitting France and Italy to join the London parleys by Christmas, with a view to calling the 1935 Naval Conference early next spring...
...Chicago to investigate working conditions in the packing industry. The result was The Jungle, the biggest literary bomb burst since Uncle Tom's Cabin. Sinclair made $30,000, a huge name for himself as a muckraker. President Theodore Roosevelt wanted him on the commission which laid the groundwork for the Meat Packing Law of 1907. Sinclair refused, but kept the pot boiling to such a pitch in magazine articles that President Roosevelt testily wrote Sinclair's publishers to "tell Sinclair to go home and let me run the country for a while...
...Germany has been tortured and made unhappy! What pains us most is the injustice and unfairness of others!" With the fervor of a Messiah, he affirmed that a great injustice will be righted by voting the Saar to Germany, thus "laying the groundwork for lasting peace" with France...
...Only Groundwork for Future...
General Johnson, glad to deal with Mike Tighe instead of Earl Forbeck, promised to "go the limit with the steel unions if they'll get down to cases." He asked them to lay the legal groundwork for governmental action...