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...also write English. Author (News Photography), longtime chief cameraman for the late New York World and now a Manhattan free lance, Jack Price has long campaigned for the improvement of his unpopular trade by supplying all reporters with cameras to take their own pictures. This procedure would effectively abolish Jack Price's vocation, except for the fact that reporters stubbornly dis dain so practical an accomplishment as photography. Jack Price's trade, how ever, is now further than ever from extinction, because newspaper publishers have discovered that news pictures help circulation and enormously improve their newspapers' appearance...
...soldiers' bonus, a yes-and-no attitude toward Caesar, who wanted to change the constitution. He left the uncomfortable middle ground to denounce Catiline, in one of the greatest pieces of invective known to history, but Catiline's crimes were great: he planned to burn Rome, abolish debt and share the wealth by taking over the property of political antagonists. In the warfare between Caesar and Pompey, Cicero sided first with Pompey, became neutral, chose Pompey again, again became neutral, got on the losing side just before it lost. By that time he had antagonized both camps...
...Grilled First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell concerning newspaper charges by Welsh Has-Been David Lloyd George that His Majesty's Government could have persuaded Realmleader Hitler to write a German pledge to abolish submarines into the exchange of notes in which Britain gave Germany a blank check to violate the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, June 24). Nettled, Sir Bolton admitted that abolition of submarines had been discussed during the negotiations but insisted that the British Government had obtained from the German Government everything Realmleader Hitler was willing to concede. Stenographic records of the parley were then...
That the Dictator's smart entourage had profited from rubbing ideas with Mr. Eden, appeared when Italian Undersecretary for Colonies Alessandro Lessona announced on behalf of Il Duce with a perfectly straight face: "We consider our mission in Ethiopia as sincerely and definitely to abolish slavery and to replace oppression by a harmonious regime of order. We shall give to Ethiopia the opportunity to participate in modern civilization...
Puzzle. While the Commission's horrendous ammunition was being freely fired on the Senate floor in defense of the Wheeler Bill to abolish holding companies last week (see p. 11), the powermen puzzled over what made their industry such a hot political issue. They listened to papers citing a 16% reduction in domestic rates, a 31% increase in domestic consumption in the last five Depression years. They pondered the fact that in 70% of the nation's 20,000,000 wired homes, the power bill is less than 7? per day. They were reminded that total revenues from...