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...Delegate Hull backed with a final plea to the Conference for lower tariffs-despite reports in London papers that the U. S. Administration would shortly raise several schedules. As chairman of the Conference Monetary Commission-which deadlocked on stabilization and wrecked the Conference (TIME, June 26 et seq.)- Vice-Chief U. S. Delegate James M. Cox praised the Conference's 500 experts, remarking that "100 of them have been working together at various conferences for ten years." In his final speech Mr. Cox, unable to praise his Monetary Commission, praised the Bank for Interna tional Settlements at Basle, Switzerland...
...weeks Mr. Bruce had been trying to persuade his Government to enter a "Big Four" wheat acreage restriction pact covering the U. S., Canada, Australia and Argentina (TIME, July 3 et seq.). Last week, fearing to lose personal prestige at home with Australians who have turned against the pact, Mr. Bruce further exploded: "Schemes of this character can be carried out only by Socialist, Fascist or Communist states and Australia certainly does not intend to become any of these...
...breach of promise verdict obtained by Emelia Tersini, London waitress, against colossal Primo Camera, and to Camera's ensuing petition in bankruptcy (TIME, April 10; et seq.): denial by the New York Supreme Court of Signorina Tersini's application to have a receiver appointed for the $16,000 earned by Camera when he won the heavyweight championship from Jack Sharkey (TIME, July 10). Champion Camera-who last week was picking up change by personal appearances in a Broadway vaudeville house-claimed he had paid his fight receipts to his manager Louis Soresi for a farm in Italy. Said...
...billion-dollar Japanese holocaust at Shanghai (TIME. Feb. 1, 1932 et seq.) several million dollars worth of damage was done by Japanese bombing planes. If and when they ever return, China hopes to be ready with a hot reception. Lately 75,000 slant-eyed Shanghai patriots cheered a zipping U. S. Curtiss Hawk combat plane just right for shooting down bombers. While they gasped and squealed, the 700-h.p. ship tore around Shanghai at 200 m.p.h., dived at 350 m.p.h. to annihilate an imaginary bomber and flattened out with a roar like 47 Chinese dragons just above the head...
...Last year a blatant young editor named John Bowman Chapple managed to win the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator, partly by charging that President Frank and his faculty "pinks'' had made the university a hotbed of communism, atheism and free love (TIME, May 2, 1932 et seq.). Alarmist Chapple lost the election, but he had started a Red scare which last week resulted in a legislative investigation at Madison...