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Sirs: Who is Evangeline Brewster Johnson Stokowski [TIME, Dec. 13] ? I was under the impression that Leopold Stokowski was married to Olga Samaroff...
...Conductor Stokowski was married to Pianist Olga Samaroff who bore him one daughter, divorced him twelve years later. In January 1926 he was married to Evangeline Brewster Johnson, surgical manufacturer's daughter, who bore him two daughters, divorced him last month (TIME, Dec...
Stimson on Ludlow. Alf Landon's complaint against Congress was due to the Ludlow Resolution (TIME, Dec. 27), a proposed amendment to the Constitution providing for declaration of war by national referendum rather than act of Congress. The Ludlow Resolution has almost no chance of passage anyway, but Henry L. Stimson, who succeeded Frank Kellogg as Secretary of State, came to aid his own embarrassed successor, Cordell Hull. Policies of the U. S. State Department change less with changing administrations than those of any other department. Secretary Stimson and Secretary Hull see almost eye to eye on many matters...
...these was an amendment to the 1934 Housing Act intended to encourage building by making it easier for prospective home builders to borrow private funds guaranteed by the Government. This was proposed by the President (TIME, Dec. 6). The other, started by Congress on its own initiative, was revising the undistributed profits tax-for which the President said he was ready whenever Congress was. By last week, the House Ways & Means Committee's sub-Committee on Taxation had put in a month's work on a new tax bill drafting of which should be completed soon after Congress...
Kidnapping, Year ago the Generalissimo was suddenly kidnapped and held prisoner at Sian (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936, et seq.). It was The Young Marshal Chang whose troops seized Chiang Kaishek. This kidnapping was promptly hijacked by Chinese forces allied with the Communists. At Nanking an extremely grave suspicion was abroad that Brother-in-Law T. V. Soong, disappointed in an ambition to become Premier of China, had put The Young Marshal, a "cured" ex-dope addict, up to seizing the Generalissimo. What followed proved that Chiang had remade China. It also gave the lie to generations of Chinese history. Instead...