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Senator Arthur Vandenberg, who regards himself as a Republican big gun since his victory in Michigan last autumn, laid down the first major bombardment. As became a man with Presidential aspirations, it was 15.000 words long...
...Chamberlain?" Actually Critic Chamberlain is 31 and ten years out of Yale, where he chairmanned the funny Yale Record. The Times got him after he had spent one year in an advertising agency, kept him as newshawk and associate editor of the Sunday Book Review until 1933. In the autumn of that year Publisher Adolph Ochs so far foreswore his prejudice against signed columns as to spread a boxed daily review over the top of three Times columns, set young Mr. Chamberlain to writing it. Like few others, Bookman Chamberlain has resisted the pressure to submerge his style...
...nothing to look forward to but the dole last month when 104-year-old Hamilton Woolen Co., unable to settle a strike, voted to shut up shop (TIME, Jan. 28). Last week Southbridge was jubilant once more. The cloth designers had been called back to prepare their patterns for autumn. That could mean only one thing: the mill was not to close. That day Hamilton Woolen's President Richard Lennihan announced that arrangements had been made to sell the company to U. S. Bunting Co. of Lowell, operated by J. P. Stevens & Co., big highly-respected New York commission...
Capitalizing on the British craze for commodity speculation that started in 1932, a pool lofted the price of pepper from 18? per Ib. last autumn to 31?. That attracted the attention of Indian exporters, who promptly began to shake all their pepper on the pool. By last week London warehouses were bursting with no less than 42,000,000 Ib.-a three-year supply...
...Last autumn the American Institute of Food Distribution estimated that the 1934 tomato pack would be up some 20%, the corn pack 20%, the pea pack 15%, the string bean pack 9%. The Alaska salmon pack was the biggest on record. All during summer and autumn Drought dropped into the can-makers' laps orders for hundreds of millions of cans for the meat which the Government was tinning for the unemployed. Last week Continental Can Co. announced that 1934 had been the best year in history, with profits of $10,707,000 against...