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...Finnish war put Mussolini's hand on many a pressure valve. He made a show of sending planes to Finland over Germany's protest and territory. When the Allies seemed on a spot, he called off the British trade talks, got into a jam with Britain over coal, in the end managed to have most of his coal and burn Ribbentrop too. Last week he had everyone utterly bewildered. There was talk of sending an Ambassador back to Moscow, even though Premier Molotov was making such aspersive remarks about Italy's Albanian grab that the Italian press...
...Trouble Shooter William Leiserson forced the Board to examine its own efficiency. Four NLRB regional directors studied the evidence for 60 days, in October severely indicted the Board's administrative methods, policies, machinery, recommended specific changes, many of them aimed at unpopular Secretary Witt. OverDr. Leiserson's protest, Boardmen Edwin S. Smith and J. Warren Madden pigeonholed the report...
...Appleton lawyer, chummy with La Folletteers; one a "Roosevelt-Farley" ticket, headed by Charles E. Broughton, Sheboygan politician, made up of machine Democrats. For John Nance Garner was a slate bossed by John J. Slocum, Assembly clerk, expected to attract many an anti-Term III voter who would rather protest a Roosevelt re-election than choose between Messrs. Dewey and Vandenberg...
...maintain that government spending produced a wave of recovery, and that the Roosevelt recession came only when pump-priming was halted. For them to deny that public money has helped correct economic distress would be pointless self-castigation. Sullivan and Krock have only misunderstood, or misinterpreted, the New Deal protest at Miss Thompson's figures...
Senator David I. Walsh replied that he had submitted the protest to the Foreign Relations Committee and had entered it with the State Department, adding that he was "in full accord with your views...