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...quite orthodox. Since the private activities of U. S. Senators are not limited by law, the committee when it was formed about a year ago, made a shrewd bid for Senatorial patriotism and prestige. Thus it was that Senators Nye & Wheeler popped up in Havana last week at the behest of unhappy holders of $40,000,000 of Public Works bonds issued in the U. S. in the twilight of the Machado dictatorship. After Machado fled, the Grau San Martin Government repudiated the loan as illegally contracted, and the Cuban Supreme Court is now pondering charges that the Machado Administration...
Meanwhile throughout the U. S., at the behest of the Committee for Ethiopia which claimed to represent 5,000 ministers, 4,000,000 communicants in a dozen or more faiths, many a Sunday worshipper also prayed for Ethiopia's peace and put money in the collection box for the new Ethiopian Red Cross. Last week the Federal Council of Churches came out officially against an Italo-Ethiopian War, as did a number of bishops and clergy of all sects in a petition signed by the Washington Clergy Committee against War and Political Corruption. In many a Christian heart there...
...with Mr. Wang." Politicians, they were getting out in advance of the coming Kuomintang (National People's Party) Congress which promises to erupt with indignation against the Government's unparalleled series of surrenders to Japan (TIME, June 17 & 24). surrenders which included dissolving at Japan's behest all locals of the Kuomintang in North China. To the Generalissimo and his brothers-in-law the squawks of the Kuomintang were of comparative indifference...
Last year Maryland Casualty Co. of Baltimore borrowed $17,500,000 from the RFC, RFChairman Jesse Jones promptly installed two government executives as vice presidents to represent RFC's interest. Last week Maryland Casualty, presumably at Jesse Jones's behest, announced the election of ten new directors, nearly all of them nationally known. Among the ten were Maryland's onetime Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie; onetime FDI Chairman Walter Joseph Cummingst now chairman of Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co.; President Ellery W, Mann of Zonite Products Corp.; Vice Chairman Samuel Clay Williams...
...Sidetracked, at the behest of Bishop James Cannon Jr., a liberal committee report on the liquor traffic, declared itself instead "unalterably opposed" to that traffic...