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Dispatches last week reported from Moscow that widespread deterioration of machine tools throughout the Soviet Union during 1937 has apparently been due to too great "speedup" efforts under the system called Stakhanovism (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). The Economic Council of the Soviet Cabinet investigated last week a case in which...
This week royal decrees proroguing Parliament for a month were sent to be read in each house. The Senate quietly voted nonconfidence in the new Cabinet 83-10-4 but accepted the decree. In the Chamber, just as His Majesty's decree was about to be read by the...
Streamers of colored paper linked ship and pier, bright specks of confetti dotted the air between waving throngs on the dock and the gay crowd on the liner's deck high above them. "Good-by," "Don't let a Jap bomb get you," "Take care of yourself.'...
Embarrassed, Mr. Martin put his gun away, promising to meet the delegations later. But as word spread swiftly throughout the city that Homer Martin had pulled a pistol on his own men, the milling crowd outside the hotel grew so big that police were called to disperse it. Rumors spread...
In Manhattan last week, while weary white wings swept up the last piles of debris from the streets and puffy-eyed barmen went home to catch up on their sleep, the American Legion and its camp-followers scattered to their homes (see p. 12). Manhattan's visitors last week...