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Just before he set sail for South America on his errand of peace & goodwill, President Roosevelt expressed concern over the vast sums of foreign capital seeking safety in the U. S., broadly hinted that something might have to be done to keep what he called this "hot" money from threatening the U. S. financial structure (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week something was done. With Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles alert at his side, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau read a 93-word statement at a press conference in Washington...
From the West Indies last week the greatest living Welshman, David Lloyd George, cabled home an apology that he was unable to be in South Wales with Edward VIII "on the King's errand of mercy...
...police of Terre Haute, Ind., who locked him up as a vagrant (TIME, Oct. 12). Born in Kansas, son of a country schoolmaster, Earl Browder's own schooling ended at 9 when his father had a breakdown and the son got a job as an errand boy. He studied bookkeeping, became office manager of a farmers' Co-Operative at Olathe, finally in 1917 went to jail for opposing the draft...
...Adolf Edward Wuppermann, active manager of the company for 25 years. Son Edward gave up yearning for the stage career followed by his brothers, Cinemactors Ralph and Frank Morgan, to enter the famed bitters business in 1888, used to refer to himself as "mother's high-class errand...
...whose loose-lipped, loose-living husband Alfonso XIII never abdicated and stands a chance of being restored in Madrid as King should the White armies win Spain's present civil war (see p. 20). Last week Her Majesty, traveling as "the Duchess of Toledo," arrived on the tragic errand of rushing to the bedside of her eldest son Alfonso. He renounced his rights as Spanish Crown Prince to marry a rich Cuban commoner (TIME, July 3, 1933), is now the Count of Covadonga, and as his mother landed he had just undergone the eleventh of a series of blood...