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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against Vichy, with 95% of the French colony backing General de Gaulle was reported. General Julien François René Martin, commanding the Indo-Chinese forces, announced that he would resign if the Japanese demands were granted. The Ile de France, interned at Singapore by the British while en route to French Indo-China with a cargo of airplanes, was reported at Saïgon, headquarters of pro-De Gaulle forces, with its cargo intact. British diplomatic circles even declared that Admiral Decoux had forsaken Vichy and cast his lot with De Gaulle but had refrained from announcing...
Last week, Frederick Osborn started a new job: $1-a-year population consultant for the Division of Statistical Standards. In Washington, his work will consist of determining the effect of such govern mental innovations as Rural Resettlement, TVA. First problem: Do improved en vironments stimulate birth rates...
...Hopkins successor for Secretary of Commerce, Franklin Roosevelt's choice was the New Deal's No. 1 businessman, Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones, hard-featured, big-boned, white-haired Texan. En route to Harbor Springs, Mich, for a vacation when this news broke, Jesse Jones had nothing to say. This week the President will see Louis Johnson-who, after being ushered out of the War Department, failed to nibble at a post as one of the anonymous Presidential assistants-to ask him whether he wants to be Under Secretary of Commerce...
Lewis Mumford is an art critic, a specialist in architecture and city planning at a time when more cities are being destroyed than built. He has written authoritatively about these and other subjects. He is also a militant and vocal liberal, and has en joyed a long connection with The New Republic that ended last June in a hideous rupture (TIME, June 17, July 8). When Russia, the "Socialist Fatherland," began to exhibit openly all the symptoms of a flourishing fascism, Mumford denounced Communists. When German, Italian and Japanese Fascists began to burn the cities of Spain and China, Author...
...Francisco courtroom two wom en glared at one another last week. One was pretty Mrs. James Rolph III, daughter-in-law of the late Governor of Califor nia. The other was buxom, bespectacled Mrs. Frank Carreaud, Texas turfwoman. What brought them to court was one of the strangest suits ever laid before a jury...