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Years have passed since any member of the Soviet Council of People's Commissars has received any foreign journalist, and thus last week the Moscow corps of correspondents was highly excited by an invitation to confer with Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff in his Louis XV office which looks out across the street at the Secret Political Police building...
...what authority does TIME (Feb. 28) confer a Harvard diploma on James Roosevelt? According to the latest Alumni Directory he is recorded as passing five years in college (1926-31), but he is not credited with any degree...
...Schuschnigg was secretly dispatched by prominent Austrians to confer at Munich with Hitler's Nazi henchmen, Heinrich Himmler and Rudolf Hess. He went back to Vienna convinced that the Nazis would never offer Austria honorable terms of voluntary association with Germany...
...Summoned to Washington to confer with the Federal Trade Commission on fair trade practices for the wool industry, the National Association of Wool Manufacturers refused to attend. F. T. C. is pondering a set of fibre identification rules for wool textiles such as those which upset the rayon industry last year (TIME, Nov. 29). Said President Arthur Besse of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers : "The wool textile industry as a whole does not desire or see the need for any such trade practice conference. . . .' F. T. C. retorted that its conference would begin on March...
Indiana's Democracy has been busy cleaning house to prepare for inspection by its big boss, white-crested and handsome Philippine High Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt, now en route from Manila to confer with President Roosevelt on Far Eastern conditions and scheduled to stop off in Indianapolis February 19. Two things Boss McNutt expects his lieutenants, Governor M. Clifford Townsend and Senator Sherman Minton, to have well in hand when he arrives are: 1) the boom for Paul V. McNutt for President of the U. S. in 1940, and 2) the defeat of Senator Frederick Van Nuys for party...