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From the Coast Guard cutter Potomac somewhere in the Bahamas last week, President Roosevelt dispatched two invitations by wireless. One went to the Hon. Sir Bede (pronounced Beedy) Clifford, His Majesty's Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Nassau, to have lunch next day aboard the Potomac. The other went to the White House staff and correspondents twiddling their thumbs in Miami. Would they like to see what President Roosevelt looked like after a week...
Richard R. Flood has been appointed chairman of the Freshman Smoker Committee. His assistants will be Elliot C. Bacon, John F. Bowen, Charles L. Burwell, George H. Earle, 4th, William C. Flinn, Harry R. Harwood, Donald MacDonald, Hugh L. McNeil, Robert W. Sarnoff, and Clifford W. Wilson...
When Maxwell Anderson, and Eugene O'Neill, and Clifford Odets are forgotten, and the Empire State Building is one with the Coliseum, and Beacon Hill is of no more consequence than the Palatine, Plautus will still be a name that is known by a favoured few, and the man of the future will look back to a couple of days after the Ides of April, A.D. 1936, and call it a glimmering of light in an age that was dark with a complex gloom...
Intended as a prescription to cure the ills of Capitalism is "Social Credit," the invention of an engineer by the name of Major Clifford Hugh Douglas who spends much time tending the delightful garden of his rural English home and knocking together small boats. Last week Major Douglas had had enough of the farce which has been going on in the Canadian province of Alberta in the name of his Social Credit (TIME, Sept. 2, et seq.). Taking pen in hand, the Major resigned his $10,000 per annum job as Alberta's adviser, canceled his proposed voyage...
...business, chief executive being John Durant Larkin Jr. His son, Vice President J. Crate Larkin, is a blue-eyed six-footer of 33. A Williams graduate (Class of 1923) he, too, has written a book, From Debts to Prosperity, is an ardent disciple of Britain's Major Clifford Hugh Douglas, high priest of Social Credit. Last week after experimental application of the Douglas theories in his own office, Mr. Larkin announced...