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...country's greatest reporters was out of a job last week, perhaps more to his own surprise than to that of Washington correspondents who have been his admiring friends for 15 years. Paul Y.* Anderson gave the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the best 23 of his 44 years, helped earn it great prestige and himself a $16,000 salary, finally won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize with an almost single-handed crusade which reopened the reeking Teapot Dome scandal. Paul Anderson began to think increasingly of late that his endless exploits had also earned him an independence no other Washington...
Germany was vexed by President Roosevelt's attack on dictatorships in his opening message to Congress. So last week Der Angriff, organ of the regimented German Labor Front, solemnly reported in a dispatch from the U. S.: "Lack of officially organized aid for the needy has resulted in frightful misery. In Cleveland 65,000 are in dire need. Numerous hungry persons sit crying, often with small children, in the municipal welfare bureaus begging for food...
...America's farmers," said a United Press dispatch from Washington last week, "need not worry about another serious drought until 1975." Reason: Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot...
...universities, hospitals and medical missions where for years they and their predecessors Christianized and educated the best class of Chinese, nurturing the indigenous Chinese Christian phenomenon of the New Life Movement of the Chiang Kai-sheks. In the New York Times last week, details in a lengthy airmailed dispatch by F. Tillman Durdin on the fall of Nanking (TIME, Dec. 27) revealed something of the fortitude currently displayed in China by these men of God in the foreign field...
Pneumatic's troubles are now labor troubles. Its 200-odd workmen work only in postoffices. but are private employes, as such are not allowed to touch mail. They can do no more than receive, dispatch and open the lids of the greasy carriers for the postal employes. Their wages are the same as Government postal laborers-about $32 weekly-but their week is 60 hours instead of 40 hours. This, says the company's Vice President George J. Murray, is not what "President Roosevelt believes workmen should have." Only difficulty is that...