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...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, Walter Elliott, the tall, taciturn, sagacious Scot who has long been considered one of the Conservative Party's ablest younger men, was shelved by giving him the sinecure Secretary of State for Scotland, and the Prime Minister made his especial favorite at the Treasury, Civil Servant William Shepherd Morrison the new Minister of Agriculture...
...proceeded to conquer all China. In this adventure the Soviet Government helped with money, munitions, propaganda spread ahead of General Chiang's soldiers by secret agents under Moscow's ace propagandist Michael Borodin, and finally by sending to act as Chiang's Chief-of-Staff the ablest Bolshevik strategist, then called "General Galen," today Commander-in-Chief of Soviet Armies in the Far East under the name of General Blucher...
Last week's Chicago Art Institute show carefully avoided any of the extreme schools of U. S. painting, was described by Chicago's ablest critic, Clarence Joseph Bulliet (Chicago Daily News), as "a sedate show of practically unrelieved conservatism." The jury for painting-Edmund Archer, John Steuart Curry, Jerry Farnsworth, Meyric Rogers, Thomas Tallmadge-salved its artistic conscience by giving Mrs. Logan's prize to an unexceptionable if uninspired studio nude entitled Olympia, by capable, hard-working Robert Philipp of Manhattan...
...Ghosts is the settings-particularly one of a Universe Forges gun works-by 34-year-old Donald Oenslager, who is making a strong bid to add his name to those of Norman Bel Geddes (see p. 47), Lee Simonson, Jo Mielziner and Robert Edmond Jones as one of the ablest stage designers...
...give Notre Dame its worst defeat since 1925- 26-to-0. Spearhead of the Pitt attack, and author of one Pitt touchdown was the youngest player on the field, Marshall ("Biggie") Goldberg, stocky sophomore who, next morning, celebrated his 18th birthday by reading that the country's ablest football writers had picked him as a prospect for the 1936 All-America...