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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head had fallen, that of the gaunt Great White Rabbit of 1939, Franklin Roosevelt's Spend-Lend Bill that was proposed at $3,860,000,000 but had been slashed to $1,615,000,000 in the Senate (TIME, July 24, et seq.). In Franklin Roosevelt's biggest legislative defeat yet, the House refused (193-167) even to consider the bill. This was the first time a Roosevelt Congress had turned down pap and pork...
...Maurice Gamelin had no particular interest in inflicting minimum losses on his country's enemies. He was made commander of France's Army of the Levant, then brought home in 1928. Three years later he became Chief of Staff and in 1935 achieved what was then the biggest French military job, that of Vice President of the Supreme War Council (the President is the War Minister...
...biggest fortunes-and the shady fortunes-were mostly made outside of the U. S. in countries which remained neutral. Before 1913 the Swedish match business was divided between a great number of small individual match factories and the large combine of Jönköping. Just before the War Ivar Kreuger had managed to combine the smaller companies into the United Swedish Match Factories, with a capital of four million kroner. This company, like its rival Jönköping, was faced with War-created difficulties in getting raw materials. But Kreuger made deals with belligerents, guaranteeing...
Music's "anti-aggression front" salvoed its reply last week. In Lucerne, Switzerland, for the second year, opened a month-long festival designed to cabbage some of the Salzburg trade. Biggest tourist bait, as he was last summer, was Arturo Toscanini, whose European pond has shrunk rapidly in recent years. He was down for five concerts, including two performances of a work from which he generates much heat, the Verdi Requiem, to be done in Lucerne's old Jesuit Church. Four concerts were to be broadcast, and Toscanini's son-in-law, Vladimir Horowitz, able pianist...
...first world's poultry fair at The Hague. Last week, backed by a $100,000 Federal subsidy, the seventh World's Poultry Congress opened in the great halls of Cleveland's 1936-37 Great Lakes Exposition (left standing for the occasion). It was the biggest convention to be held in the U.S. this year, and Professor Rice was its chairman...