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After much waiting. Secretary Morgenthau, speaking by telephone to First Secretary H. Merle Cochran of the U. S. Embassy, Paris, dictated two precious paragraphs. After these were handed on Embassy stationery to Premier Daladier. confirming that what he was going to do was no violation of the Tripartite Monetary Accord of the U. S., France and Britain which was signed to keep their three currencies level with each other (TIME, Oct. 5. 1936), Premier Daladier was able to announce devaluation of the franc over the radio and to tell Frenchmen that the pound and dollar would not be devalued...
...cartload of hens and ducks, and a singularly unaccomodating little wire-haired terrier called "George." It shows Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant wandering in and about golf courses, forests, and a Connecticut jail in search of "Baby"--the young leopard, and vaguely hoping to recover Mr. Grant's most precious possession: the intercostal clavicle of a prehistoric brontosaurus. It enlists the services of such tried-and-true comedians as Charlie Ruggles, Walter Catlett, and May Robson, and includes every conceivable sort of comedy from the broadest slapstick to the subtlest incongruity. Largely through the efforts of Miss Hepburn...
This collection that was so infinitely precious to him is coming by his desire to the University from which he had graduated not five years before. It will remain as a memorial of his love for his College in the centre of the superb edifice which will henceforth bear his name and which will link it imperishably with that of Harvard. With these thoughts in our mind we now thankfully but gravely greet the moment of the laying of the cornerstone of the Harry Elkins Widener Library...
...close-mouthed as usual, but expansive Francis W. Rickett glowingly described his conference with General Lázaro Cárdenas, the "New Deal" President of Mexico. The issue, according to Briton Rickett, is whether the Fascist Dictators can be kept from hogging Mexican bargain oil and this precious fluid saved for the great Democracies. "My motives," announced Mr. Rickett, "are patriotic...
...said. The talk at luncheon, following the two Chancellors' private conference and agreement, was of horse breeding mainly. The Austrian Chancellor's entourage considered it in bad taste that a high German officer of Hitler's staff was wearing a decoration not enameled but blazing with precious stones, such as would be worn only on the greatest occasions of State. After luncheon, dignified, firm Dr. Schuschnigg stood up as best he could for Austria's rights, was obliged to accept, and later carried out to the letter, a hard bargain which nonetheless left Austria fully sovereign...