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Meanwhile Linda Gaddy Bilbo's husband stayed on the Poplarville pecan plantation while his State went from bad to worse financially. A bull-headed little man of the Blease-Vardaman stripe, Governor Bilbo continued deaf to pleas to call a special session of the Legislature to consider only fiscal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hey, Bilbo! | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

Refreshing Ryti. Conscientious, meticulous. Mr. Knickerbocker states that he does not think Soviet Russia will attack in the near future either Finland or any other country. He discounts the Finnish gas scare 99%, but he hails Chairman Risto Ryti of the Bank of Finland as "most refreshing . . . after two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: MENACE! ! Menace? | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

Even Dr. Curtius' own People's Party seemed to want to get rid of him (his popularity has waned since he "bungled" the Austro-German customs union scheme). At a hectic midnight meeting the People's Party caucus ignored pleas by Dr. Curtius and President Luther of the Reichsbank, voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Ballyhooer's Return | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

Last week Kassay again found himself a free man. Judge Walter B. Wanamaker in Common Pleas Court at Akron quashed his indictment on the ground that the syndicalism statute was unconstitutional. His reason: it violated the guarantees of free speech. Conceding the State's right to protect itself against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Talk No Crime | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

Journalism, To the Atlanta Constitution, a gold medal worth $500 for "most disinterested and meritorious public serv- ice": a probe, instigated by able Editor Clark Howell, of corruption in Atlanta's municipal government, resulting so far in eleven convictions and ten pleas of guilt to charges of fraud, bribery, etc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pulitzer Awards | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

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