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...first years, FORTUNE was more or less a journal of discovery, but the length of the Depression (TIME's editors had felt that "it may last as long as a year") prompted it to begin a study of the stricken economy. As Franklin Roosevelt was elected and power ebbed from Wall Street to Washington, the magazine's editors made Government as much as business the object of editorial scrutiny. In so doing, FORTUNE in the early '30s came down very much on the side of the New Deal, reflecting Luce's general approval of the early reforms of the Roosevelt...
...government for rising grain prices, which have jumped about 17% in the past year, with the result that the average worker must now spend 60% of his wages on food. Food shortages have forced many Indians to switch reluctantly from native rice to U.S.-supplied wheat. In such drought-stricken states as Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, the government's grain-distribution program has been so ineffective that thousands of people suffer from acute malnutrition and cattle are dying in the streets...
Howe, a member of the Law School faculty since 1946, was Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History. He was stricken at his Cambridge home during the night by a coronary occlusion, and died before dawn...
...Premier of Soviet Russia made the required pilgrimage this week to London's Highgate cemetery to pay homage at the grave of Karl Marx, the poverty-stricken, antisocial journalist who started it all. But Marx would not have approved of the company that Aleksei Nikolaevich Kosygin kept on his eight-day visit to Britain: it was far too typical of what he denounced as "capital enthroned...
...President's vision limited to the U.S. In yet another message, Johnson revealed that the U.S. was sending 2,000,000 tons of grain to drought-stricken India, asked Congress to approve an additional allocation of grain "not to exceed 3,000,000 tons" and with the proviso that "it is appropriately matched by other countries." Though that carefully limited proposal caused some consternation in New Delhi, the President made eloquently clear the U.S.'s commitment to a "continuing world campaign against hunger...