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...build-up for this, the Premier had deliberately provoked a provincial election which he need never have to fight and was hell-bent to win it Oct. 6. With chances heavily favoring "Mitch," last week Canadian wiseacres agreed that a victory for Liberal Premier Hepburn must severely shake the position and prestige of Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Although both are still nominally Liberals, Hepburn and King have broken violently, thus threatening to split Canada's majority party wide open at the next Federal election, and this week the provincial election show which "Mitch...
...minus $203,000 in 1932, Depression might have conquered the company forever but for the clever maneuvers of young George Strohmeyer. This tall, red-haired young man with a fondness for dogs and fishing joined Childs in 1927 as an accountant, and was assistant treasurer when the shake-up came. Transferred to real-estate supervision, he cut rent costs $500,000 by abandoning bad property, persuading landlords that it would be less unprofitable to reduce Childs rent than to force the company into bankruptcy. In 1933 George Strohmeyer became president at 35. In 1936 Childs made a profit...
...refugees, evacuated from Shanghai three days before, disembarked on the dock to the gay music of a Marine band. An hour later Manila's brightly lighted water front was suddenly plunged into pitch darkness. The dock on which the refugees were standing in confused groups began to shake. With a terrifying roar the roof above split apart. "They're bombing us again!" screamed a woman refugee. Another shrieked: "Is this another...
...head the newly created Detroit archdiocese, fifth largest of the 17 in the U. S. (TIME, June 14). His pince-nez flashing, tall Archbishop Mooney descended to the platform where Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy and a representative of the city's Mayor Frank Couzens waited to shake his hand...
...Sullivan, 67, Tammany district leader of the old school, for the past 21 years a desultory, disinterested member of Congress: to succeed the late James J. Dooling as leader of Tammany Hall. By his election a Congressman for the first time became boss of Tammany. Expected was a shake-up of Democratic plans to recover control of New York City from Fusion Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia who is up for re-election next fall (TIME, Aug. 2). Left, By Automan Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudson Motors), onetime (1932-33) U. S. Secretary of Commerce; an estate of $7,311,616. After...