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Dispatches last week reported from Moscow that widespread deterioration of machine tools throughout the Soviet Union during 1937 has apparently been due to too great "speedup" efforts under the system called Stakhanovism (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). The Economic Council of the Soviet Cabinet investigated last week a case in which Joseph Stalin himself had apparently been hoaxed. The Dictator voted in Russia's recent election for a candidate whose claim was that as a Stakhanovite pacesetter he had increased his milling-machine output 9,000%. Last week the successful candidate's Soviet boss and fellow workers were revealed...
...Alexandre Barmine, the Soviet diplomat who was recently Russia's Charge d'Affaires at Athens, then broke with Moscow and denounced Stalin (TIME, Dec. 13), was being closely guarded in Paris last week by Socialists of the Second International and French detectives who stayed on duty day and night, fearing Soviet agents might kill or kidnap him. To British and French reporters Communist Barmine had told how he refused to dine aboard a Soviet steamer sent to Greece, suspecting the Captain had been ordered to shanghai him and take him back to Russia...
George Horace Lorimer was editor of the Saturday Evening Post from 1899 to Dec. 31, 1936. He was a man who looked like a bulldog and he ran the Post from stem to stern, finally becoming president of the whole Curtis group (Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman) when the late Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis resigned in 1932. Last week's year-end board meeting seemed strange without Mr. Lorimer. It brought together at a dramatic moment the men (it took more than one man to succeed George Horace Lorimer) who twelve months ago took charge...
True Confession (Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore; TIME, Dec...
Nothing Sacred (Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger; TIME, Dec...