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...President's outright support of the publishers against Labor and his own Labor Board in the case of Dean Jennings, rewrite man fired by Hearst's San Francisco Call-Bulletin (TIME...
When the average room price of at least $200 is used as a yardstick, it compares on a basis of absolute equality with the charge for attractive "apartments with Kitchenette" in Cambridge. These houses themselves were outright gifts, and there are no taxes. In contradistinction, the apartment owners have to provide for capital outlays and taxes. With this comparative advantage in upkeep charges, the least the College can do is to provide an adequate staff for the care of rooms. The self-congratulatory phrases about drastic economics and shakeups should not conceal the fact that there is such a thing...
...last October the U. S. State Department got down to the point of making Ambassador Troyanovsky an offer of practically what Russia had been refused by Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. The offer: the U. S., while not ready to make an outright Government loan, would set up a revolving fund to finance Soviet purchases. Russia would pay for the use of this fund an interest rate of some 9%, the entire transaction being for an amount so large that interest payments by Russia would more than suffice to wipe (jut the principal of all U. S. claims. Had President...
Ambassador Troyanovsky, having carried the State Department's offer to Moscow, returned to Washington fortnight ago with Russia's answer locked in his briefcase. He left it at the State Department for consideration. Cocky, the Moscow answer declined Washington's proffered revolving credit, insisted on an outright loan. Last week Comrade Troyanovsky called at the State Department for the answer to Moscow's answer. Secretary of State Cordell Hull received him flanked by Assistant Secretary Moore, Ambassador Bullitt and Robert Kelley, eastern European expert of the State Department...
...politician may blink demagogery, deception, bribery, waste, graft or outright thievery in his associates but, with sound reason, he regards ingratitude as the blackest and basest of crimes. Last week Mississippi's Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo made his first real news as a U. S. Senator when he opened fire on a fellow-Mississippian as a double-dyed political ingrate...