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Explanations. With a Congressional investigation apparently more of a possibility than before but also less of a threat, the strange behavior of the TVA directors still awaited a satisfying explanation. Like many another observer, old George Norris, who this week introduced a compromise resolution demanding a five-man Senate investigation, blamed the split on the unbending personality of Arthur Morgan: "I was shocked beyond expression and suffered untold agony of heart when gradually I began to see that he [Chairman Morgan] was moved by an intense jealousy against some of his associates on the Board, and that his jealousy...
...deposed Boy Emperor Henry Pu Yi (now Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo); in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sir Reginald westernized his Manchu charge-watched Pu Yi cut off his pigtail, gave him the Christian name Henry, had his eyes treated by an American ophthalmologist despite the Dowager Empress' threat to give herself an overdose of opium if her son used spectacles...
Leftist officials said this was a Spanish battle of Jutland,* would end Franco's threat to blockade the Loyalist east coast. Jubilantly announced Foreign Minister José Giral Pereira at Barcelona: "The engagement is as important as was the taking of Teruel.† It inaugurates a new phase in the war activities of the navy." The enraged Rightists retaliated by sending out war planes which attacked Cartagena five times, raining bombs on the Government naval base. Leftists denied suffering any serious damage...
...There is no immediate threat of a war in Europe," Fritz Morstein Marx, assistant professor of Government and author of "Government in the Third Reich," said in an interview yesterday...