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...through the Governor General. President Hoover, during his two and a half years in office, has not given the Philippines much serious thought. Last year he stirred up a hornet's nest, when, without forethought, he nominated Nicholas Roosevelt to be Vice Governor (TIME, July 28, 1930 et seq.). Mr. Roosevelt had toured the islands as a newsman, written his impressions of the people in a not too flattering book (The Philippines, A Treasure and a Problem). Filipinos raised such an uproar that their protest was heard in Washington. Mr. Roosevelt helped the President out of a hole...
...Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague has been sitting these many weeks trying to decide one of the problems that brought on Europe's present chain of crises: whether Germany and Austria should be allowed to form a zollverein or customs union (TIME, March 30 et seq...
...Tacchi-Venturi has busied himself with the highest diplomacy for the past two months. Last week his aims seemed to be nearly accomplished. A new accord was about to be reached between Italy and the Papal State to close the breach which occurred last May (TIME, June 8 et seq...
...protracted dickering over who shall rehabilitate U. S. Lines and complete the process of getting the Government out of the shipping business (TIME, June 29 ct seq.) continued all last week. Chief developments were: 1) a hitherto untold chapter of U. S. shipping history; 2) an apparent shift of advantage between the dickerers, an advantage for President Philip Albright Small Franklin of Roosevelt- International Mercantile Marine Co. over President Paul Wadsworth Chapman of U. S. Lines and his new backers from the Pacific Coast, Robert Stanley Dollar and Kenneth Thomas Dawson...
...with tall tales of precious metals, he found a friend and supporter in elderly, rich August Heckscher of Manhattan. It must have grieved Friend Heckscher to learn, last October, that Promoter Bob had vanished, left behind records which demanded his arrest when he was found (TIME, Oct. 27 et seq...