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...Apple? To bulwark himself politically, President Cárdenas recently reorganized his party from top to bottom, changed its name from National Revolutionary Party to Party of the Mexican Revolution, put in, as his Jim Farley, Luis Inocencio Rodriguez, his longtime personal favorite. If Cárdenas does not run again he might choose Luis Rodriguez as his successor. Another politico who might try to grab the job is Mexico's loudmouthed, posturing, Moscow-visiting Vicente Lombardo Toledano. He claims to lead 1,000,000 organized proletarians in his Confederation of Mexican Workers-by far the most potent force...
...particular attention to Freshmen. It is just this group which most urgently needs some officer to foster an interest in a knowledge of our culture and civilization--a knowledge which can be pursued in spare time throughout the remaining three years of college, and which will be a bulwark in later life, comparable to the Englishman's keen appreciation of the classics...
...bulwark of low churchmen in the Episcopal and Anglican churches is the Evangelical Education Society. Last week there arrived in Manhattan a great Anglican evangelical, Rt. Rev. Joseph Wellington Hunkin, 50, Lord Bishop of Truro, scheduled to be chief speaker at the society's 75th anniversary meeting in Philadelphia this week. An able pulpit orator, Dr. Hunkin will spend a month in the U.S., preach in Episcopal churches and seminaries in Detroit, Boston, Washington, Richmond...
...between Shanghai and Nanking. Chinese leaders have been talking for weeks about how their troops would be able to hold "for six months" against Japanese onslaughts "the Chinese Hindenburg Line," Fushan-Soochow-Kashing. Its thousands of cement pillbox forts built upon hummocks in swampy terrain appeared most formidable, and bulwark of this Hindenburg Line was Soochow. Fortnight ago Chinese dignitaries appealed to foreigners to urge their governments to ask the Japanese to "spare highly cultured Soochow the horrors of bombing"-not that these Chinese doubted it could and would be defended. One day last week Japanese dropped some 700 bombs...
Saving grace of these circumstances was that brokers' loans last week stood at only $779,000,000, lowest point since April 1935. To businessmen who have wondered whether the current market troubles presage a major catastrophe such as occurred in 1929, this low figure was a bulwark of optimism. It proved that Wall Street credit was not over-extended as it was in 1929 when brokerage loans toted up over $8,000,000,000. Except for this strong argument the Reserve Board would almost certainly not have yielded to the Wall Street demands for lessened Government restriction...