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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime talking point for the New Deal's Matanuska Valley resettlement project (TIME, May 6, 1935 et seq.) was that it would supply some of the food which Alaska must otherwise import. Last week in Washington, returned from a month of Alaskan observation, Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas asserted that Matanuska is a flat failure. One-third of its transplanted families, said he, were ready to quit. Though the cost of settling had run to $14,000 per family instead of an anticipated $3,500, the experiment was worth every cent it had cost, declared the Senator, because...
...Ambassador von Ribbentrop went over the head of his nominal superior, Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath, and signed on behalf of the German Government the new Japanese-German treaty against the Moscow Comintern or organization for fomenting the World Revolution of the World Proletariat (TIME, Oct. 7, 1935 et ante). The Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Kimitomo Mushaktji, signed on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and Nazi organs spoke...
Although the British Cabinet yield to none in their alarm at the now chronic reluctance of young men to enlist in the British Army (TIME, Nov. 30 et ante), the alleged advice of Herr von Ribbentrop to Herr Hitler was really too much for them to stomach. In London last week being feted was Belgian Premier Professor Paul van Zeeland, and his English hosts had to do or say something. Up at an International Chamber of Commerce luncheon for Premier van Zeeland got handsome and willowy young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to utter words braver and bolder than...
...Conkle; Sidney Harmon and the Actors Repertory Company, producers) is a play about the colony of bankrupt Midwest farmers who with great fanfare were sent by the New Deal last year to get a new start in Southern Alaska's Matanuska Valley (TIME, May 6, 1935 et seq.). On a set devised by Donald Oenslager which has a huge, improbable limb of some coniferous tree hanging from the proscenium, hopeful men, women & children arrive singing, yapping, gossiping, making acquaintances. Because a bullying, stupid army man named Hodges makes a blunder, the colonists put in three weeks' labor building...
...brief announcement from an office on Manhattan's Pine Street last week wound up U. S. v. Sugar Institute, Inc. et al, most significant anti-trust case since the dissolution of old Standard Oil Co. in 1911. After spending five of its nine years in litigation, the Sugar Institute was officially closing its doors...