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...Uncle Arthur" Henderson, beefy British Foreign Secretary, is a Scotsman who stands by his friends. Only he of all the 20 Foreign Ministers gathered at Geneva last week went down to the station to meet Aristide Briand, just defeated in the election for President of France (see p. 23). Warmly Uncle Arthur and Br'er Briand clasped hands. Nobody knew then whether the Frenchman was still Foreign Minister or just Citizen Briand. His resignation was in the hands of Prime Minister Pierre Laval of France, but the Cabinet had issued an evasive communiqué suggesting that it might...
There has been a lot of trouble in Arkansas. First there was the collapse of the A. B. Banks group of banks (TIME, Dec. 1). Last week there was the food riot in England, Ark. (see p. 13), and a bank failed in Washington, Ark., 150 miles away. But there was good news in Clinton, 90 miles from England. The Van Buren County Bank opened after a short suspension. Its president and chairman is Garner Frazier, 55, an attorney-at-law, a native citizen of Clinton, and a leading citizen of Van Buren County. He is a devoted Methodist...
Derby. Twelve of the original 18 starters in the All-American Air Derby for planes powered by 100-h. p. American Cirrus engines, finished at Los Angeles the first half of a 7,000-mi. round-the-continent race, headed east to complete the circle in Detroit. In the lead was Lee Gehlbach of Little Rock, Ark. flying a low-wing Command-Aire...
Meantime, the steel ark's Noah, Dr. William M. Mann, proceeded from Boston to the National Zoological Park at Washington, which he superintends, with some 1,700 other African creatures loaded on eight trucks, and ushered all safely into permanent captivity. It was the end of the largest live-animal-collecting expedition of modern times, which all started when Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler (automobiles) heard that Washington urchins lamented the lack of giraffes, zebras and "rhinoc'ruses" in the nation's zoo (TiME, March...
...P. First there was a convention of the Associated Press, an organization formed a quarter-century ago by newspaper publishers, to distribute news among themselves on a nonprofit-making basis. The routine business of this gathering was to consider ways and means of expanding and expediting news distribution, to hear Secretary of State Kellogg speak on foreign relations, and to elect as officers; Frank B. Noyes (Washington Star), president; Robert R. McCormick (Chicago Tribune), first vice president; J. N. Heiskell (Little Rock, Ark., Gazette), second vice president. They reelected: Melville E. Stone (a former general manager) secretary, and Kent Cooper...