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...insomnia of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin abated during his prolonged vacation (which had continued up to last week since last July), and he was back at No. 10 Downing Street to shake up the British Cabinet before it again faced the House of Commons. Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha, the smart, young Jewish Liberal who seems never to take a vacation but fills British newspapers all summer with personal publicity about his "Belisha Beacon" and other traffic gadgets (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), was rewarded by promotion of his Ministry of Transport from sub-Cabinet to full Cabinet status. Minister of Agriculture...
...last week, British tradition insured the hearty cheers by all parties with which the Prime Minister was greeted on his return to Parliament. A few minutes later his Cabinet's continued refusal to sell arms to the radicals of Madrid caused radical Labor M. P.'s to shake their fists at Mr. Baldwin and shout at his Cabinet, "Butchers! Murderers...
...Will you," he asked, "shake this black hand...
Even the vehement anti-New Deal sentiment in Detroit failed to shake the University of Detroit's 906 to 222 vote for Roosevelt. The University of Washington, in Scattle, showed the largest vote of all, of which 2253 balots went for the Democrats and 1562 for the Republicans...
...made up of a family and friends, cruises from job to job in dilapidated automobiles. They camp in the groves they are picking, put in a ten or eleven hour day, spend evenings singing and dancing, like a siesta at noon, a fiesta every weekend. Threshers, who climb and shake the trees, make from $4 to $6 a day. Gatherers, who pick the nuts up from the ground or off canvas spread under the tree, earn between $1.50 and $3 a day. This year growers will pay 5? to 6? per Ib. to get the crop harvested, will sell native...