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Back from a month-long vacation in the Adirondacks, Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson had last week to compete in a strange diplomatic race. The question was that of granting recognition to the three new governments which military revolutions had ushered in in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia. Though the Argentine Government was little over a week old, the powers of Europe were falling over one another to recognize the new regime and thereby gain prestige, economic advantages. France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Scandinavian countries had already resumed normal diplomatic relations and Great Britain, chief U. S. rival in Argentina...
...Congress ended its session last week (see p. 16), a Senate committee concluded its month-long investigation of the Food, Drug & Insecticide Administration of the Department of Agriculture. Director Walter Gilbert Campbell of the Administration had asked for the probing. His accusers were Henry Hurd Rusby, retired dean of Columbia University's Department of Pharmacy, and Howard W. Ambruster. Manhattan crude drug importer who has lost much money on Spanish ergot which large U. S. drug manufacturers would not buy from him because they believed that he had tried to victimize them with a Spanish ergot corner (TIME, June...
Refreshed by a month-long armistice, Senate warriors last week climbed doggedly back into their trenches to finish the Tariff War. They swung into action with a skirmish on wool. The coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans wilted badly under the pressure of sectional interests. The wool rates went up, but not before Joseph R. Grundy, longtime tariff lobbyist, now Senator from Pennsylvania, had startled his comrades-in-arms with a display of tariff chivalry. A wool yarn manufacturer himself, he announced on the vote (35-to-29) which increased the duty on this commodity: "I am interested...
Arthur Cutten was reported in Atlantic City whither he is wont to go when he desires to be nearer to the corner of Wall and Broad Streets than his own Chicago. Whether or not he, "biggest bull," had been engaged in a month-long duel with Jesse Livermore, famed bear, was not a matter of public knowledge. No one could quite believe that Mr. Livermore was, in storybook fashion, tsar of a band of bears which had fanatically obeyed his orders for two months. But certain it seemed that a colossal effort to reduce the price of stocks...
...easily dynamitable in case of war with France. So pikestaff plain are the advantages of a sub-Channel railway that last week even that ruddy, insular, industrial squire, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, took up sturdy cudgels in its defense. When the House of Commons reassembled last week after a month-long holiday, the Squire-Statesman said...