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...Iofan and I. V. Zholtovsky (TIME, March 1, 1932). Further decisions eliminated Architect Hamilton who dejectedly blamed his British birth, threatened a suit. Last week the accepted plans of Architects Iofan, Goldfreich and Shchuko were fi- nally released and the world had an opportunity to examine the newest Soviet colossus...
...death of Sandino, hero and symbol of Latin-Americans' resentment against what they call "The Colossus of the North," sent a pang of sorrow and dismay from the Rio Grande to the Horn. Named for a Caesar by his well-to-do coffee planter father, Sandino got a fair education at Nicaragua's Granada Institute de Oriente, roved aimlessly north. He worked in mines, in U. S.-owned oil fields, in filling stations and for a Banana company. He was back in Nicaragua when Dr. Sacasa and General Jose Maria Moncada set off a Liberal revolution...
...banking system whose deposits could be guaranteed. Thus in use the RFC became the financial heart of a vast experiment in State Capitalism. Colossus. As controller of a prodigious one-man corporation, silvery-haired Jesse Jones has in his potential portfolio $394.000,000 worth of holdings in 67 railroads -enough to make Messrs. Gould and Harriman turn enviously in their graves. In three months he has bought at prices he himself increased from week to week $100,000,000 of gold. He has more bank stock than any man in the history of the world-$475,000,000 worth...
...favorite professor, and we might include also, just any ordinary man. We are talking about The Edwardian Era, by Andre Maurois (Appleton-Century, $3.00): Charles the First, by Hillaire Belloc (J. B. Lippincott, $4.00): Mary Queen of Scots, by Eric Linklater (Appleton-Century, $1.50); and An American Colossus, by Ralph Edward Bailey (Lathrop, Lee & Shepard, $3.00). In these four presentations we find a bit of history in the making told through the lives of four of the greats. Mr. Maurois is particularly witty in his new biography, one of the best that he has turned out to date. Mr. Belloc...
...significant to note that, since 1929, the trade of the United States with South America has declined 82 per cent, whilst the total foreign trade went down only 69 per cent. This starting decrease is due in part to a not unjustified distrust of this country as the "Colossus of the North," but it can also be attributed to sober economic causes. Constantly rising tariff walls, some necessary for the protection of United States industry and some purely arbitrary, have served to shunt an unwonted amount of Latin American commerce into European ports. The present difficulty of getting foreign monetary...