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Knowing observers realized some weeks ago that it was nearly time for another Fascist shift, and last week came particular reason for Il Duce to be displeased with his Foreign Minister. Dino Grandi was a delegate to Lausanne, yet the Franco-British Accord de Confiance was apparently as much of a surprise to him as it was to editors in the U. S. The accord contained a joker particularly unpleasant to Italy: a deeply buried hint of Franco-British naval accord in the Mediterranean. Benito Mussolini dealt gently with his deposed Grandi. Day after his removal was announced, Grandi...
...Johnson have recorded pygmy dialects and drums, the yapping of wild dogs, the yawning of hippopotamuses, lions' rare roars, the whooshing of thousands of flamingo wings, the slithering of crocodiles along wet rocks, the Martin Johnsons' phonograph playing jazz. There is little pretense of danger. Audiences still shift in their seats when two tons of horny rhinoceros rush at the camera, but the statistical safety of the man or woman with the gun makes the thrill meretricious. More valid is the leisurely charm of the studies of the pygmies, the hippopotamuses, the waterhole. Five minutes of rare comedy...
...Pullman Inc.'s eastern vice president. By last week's changes Mr. McDonald becomes president of the company, making him operating chief of all its transportation routes. He will be responsible to Hale Holden, for whom is created the new position of company chairman. President Shoup is shifted to vice chairman, likewise under Chairman Holden. In railroad circles this shift was not regarded as a complete sidetracking of slim, grizzled Paul Shoup, 58. He will move from San Francisco to Manhattan, devote his time to traffic, in which he is rated an expert. In late years Southern Pacific...
This latest westward shift caused little surprise among U. S. Catholics. Though Western Catholic strength is not to be compared numerically with that of the East, its enrolled communicants are more numerous (save in Mormon Utah and Idaho) than those of any other sect. Once the Western Catholics were scattered pioneers. During the last decade the U. S. hierarchy has worked mightily in the West to build up schools, colleges, churches, hospitals. No State is now without a diocese of its own (last to get one was Nevada last year - TIME...
Personnel. First important personnel shift was in Mr. Aylesworth's company nearly a year ago when RKO-Pathe and RKO-Radio merged production facilities, summoned young David O. Selznick from Paramount to take charge. Mr. Selznick was last week selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to head the 1932 committee on awards for achievements in motion pictures. Later RKO directors elected Mr. Aylesworth president in place of Hiram Brown. RKO is better off than it was a year ago. So is Universal, run by old Carl Laemmle's smart son "Junior," who started the monster cycle. Most...