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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidential campaign, though he craves the position of Governor. Tammany also dislikes 44-year-old Robert Houghwout Jackson, now an Assistant Attorney General whom New Dealers regard with fond eyes for his work as assistant general counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (TIME, March 4, 1935 et seq.). More likely possibilities, if Governor Lehman refuses to accede to a frantic '"draft" movement which developed in the wake of his announcement, are Senator Royal Copeland; New York's Attorney General John James Bennett
...week to become France's first Jewish Premier. Three months ago Editor Maurras was fined $6.50, sentenced to four months in jail on the grounds that a previous editorial had inspired a Royalist mob to give Leon Blum a cruel beating on a Paris street (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.}. Last week Editor Maurras, who is stone deaf, rushed forward to the Judge's bench, began shouting his fears that Leon Blum would lead France into war against Italy. "If my threats of death have prevented war between France and Italy, may they be blessed!" he screamed...
...eight years before Cubans got sufficiently agitated to chase Tyrant Gerardo Machado off their beautiful island (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933). It was nearly two and a half years more before they calmed down sufficiently to hold a regular Presidential election to replace him (TIME, Jan. 20 et ante). Last week, at the end of a breath-taking series of six Provisional Presidents since the flight of Machado, Cuba inaugurated its sixth legally elected President, Miguel Mariano Gómez, who happened to be the son of its second President, General Jose Miguel Gómez.* Small, young (45), determined President...
...time in years was an active member of a Southern Baptist Convention. Full of talk about Socialism and Communism, Messenger Norris was loudest in announcing that he was going to spike plans to have a Fellowship Meeting addressed by Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, No. 1 Japanese Christian (TIME, Dec. 30 et seq.) whom Dr. Norris attempted to bait in Rochester, N. Y. last month. The Southern Baptists easily squelched the Texan. As a demonstration of Baptist solidarity - though neither convention discussed merging during their sessions - the Fellowship Meeting was presided over alternately by President James Henry Franklin of the Northern Baptists...
...Villanova College last week went the Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, Belgian-born professor of organic chemistry at Notre Dame, to receive the Mendel Medal as Catholic scientist-of-the-year for his researches on acetylene which led to the development of synthetic rubber (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Before the ceremony a newshawk questioned the famed priest on another outgrowth of his researches, lewisite, only war gas deadlier than mustard gas. Said Father Nieuwland...