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...grows earnest writing his British admiration of the men now assembled in Spain under General Emilio Kleber, today Commander of the International Column, the tough soldiers of fortune from many lands who first put the backbone of trained soldiering into the defense of Madrid (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.}. Writes News Chronicle's Cox: "General Kleber is by birth an Austrian. His family took him to Toronto when he was still a child, and he became a naturalized British citizen, which he remains to this day. He fought in the Great War. In 1919 he went to Siberia...
...several days observers had been wondering audibly whether the "crisis," to avoid which the President wanted a revamped Supreme Court (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.), was the onset of violent inflation. Marriner Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, had issued a warning that rising prices must be checked by higher taxes and budget balancing. Although the forces of inflation had been unostentatiously at work for four years, not since 1933 had the U. S. public enjoyed such a good inflation scare. New Deal Congressmen who were already worried over the problem of passing the President's Supreme Court...
...seized by police and shot two hours later in the police station when they "tried to seize arms." Last autumn Santiago Iglesias, Puerto Rican Commissioner to the U. S., was wounded in the arm by a Nationalist while he was delivering a campaign speech (TIME, March 2, 1936 et seq.}. Last week Puerto Rico's dread disease of violence had its bloodiest irruption to date...
...bitter complaint on the part of Mrs. Logan over the picture to which the Institute's committee had awarded the Logan prize (Doris Lee's Thanksgiving) won Mrs. Logan a surprising amount of space in the U. S. press (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935, et seq.). Since then she has appointed herself a champion of academic painting in the U. S., and the fullest explanation of her position to date is Sanity...
Marriage Revealed. Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, 31, U. S. N., divorced husband of Thalia Fortescue Massie of Hawaii's celebrated rape-&-murder case (TIME, Jan. 18, 1932 et seq.); and Florence K. Storms, 29, Seattle stenographer, daughter of Chewelah, Wash.'s postmaster; fortnight ago; in Seattle...