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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover era.) Rebellion by the substantial leaders of a party against their leader-in-chief is rarer. And the rebellion which John Nance Garner now leads is rarer still in that it is, save in small things, almost intangible-less a rebellion than a resistance. It is nonetheless the biggest political struggle now going on in Washington...
...biggest (3,275,000 sq. mi.) South American nation and potentially the greatest in reserves is Brazil. In recent years Brazil has become a commercial battleground between the U. S. and Nazi Germany, on which the stakes are trade and cultural supremacy. The U. S. might already have lost the war had it not been for a Brazilian campaign squabble in 1930. That fight ended in a revolutionary coup d'état by the two powerful leaders of the State of Rio Grande do Sul: dressy little Getulio Vargas and his backer and right-hand man, handsome, dashing Oswaldo...
...Fell Whitney might become the overall head of U. S. Labor. White-topped, lively Mr. Whitney runs his rich Brotherhood with iron hand, vehemently opposes A. F. of L.'s proposed Wagner Act amendments, has no great love for David Robertson whom John Lewis also suggested for the biggest job U. S. Labor could offer. For fun Trainman Whitney keeps deer, rabbits, pigeons, a raccoon, lovebirds, canaries and pheasants, reads Tennyson, deluges the press with polished expositions of his views. Last week in Cleveland he agreed with C. I. 0. that jurisdictional rows should be settled after reunion, said...
Instead of being plagued with just two armies fighting each other, Spain last week had three. Army No. 1, biggest and strongest, was that of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who now holds three-fourths of Spain. Army No. 2 was commanded by famed old General José Miaja, president of the Madrid junta which last week ousted the Loyalist Government of Premier Negrin. Army No. 3 consisted of Communist "rebels" of the old Loyalist Army which revolted against the Miaja junta. The men of Armies No. 2 and 3, fortnight ago buddies in the same trenches, promptly went at each other...
...fission of thorium, as well as uranium, has been demonstrated. Atom-wranglers at Columbia University have shown that, under various conditions, the fission of uranium yields krypton, strontium, iodine, xenon, tellurium as disintegration products. The flood of reports made it appear that atomic physicists are off on the biggest big-game hunt since the discovery of artificial radioactivity was announced...