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...Nash came out $183,000 better than even while General Motors, whose third quarter ends in September, showed a $4,400,000 loss. Chairman Nash works no less now that he is chairman; most Nash papers pass over his pinewood desk. He is a mighty hunter, a fervent fisherman, a famed cook. These and other chiefs, the Royal Family of the Industry, were proud of their changing wares last week. For while their kingdom has reached maturity and stability there is one change that has never changed-the continual approach to cheaper and better transportation. And prouder than the Royal...
Ready to join dog-owners in fervent gratitude to the Field Council and its researchers is many a fur-breeder. Distemper has often wiped out stocks of silver fox, ferret, fitch, mink, fisher. Preliminary experiments indicate that the Laidlaw-Dunkin treatment will be effective for these animals...
Well-meaning old George Lansbury, M. P., leader of Great Britain's Labor Party, received replies last week to his fervent plea that the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other religious leaders should intervene to stop the "tariff war" now raging between the Mother Country and the Irish Free State (TIME, July...
Only on Rule No. 4 (Identify yourself early and firmly with a national issue} had Mr Baker tripped and fallen. From Wilson he had inherited the League of Nations issue on which he hammered away at every possible opportunity. Last winter he made a particularly fervent plea for U S action. Editors began to tut-tut him as a presidential possibility. Soon Mr Baker dropped his League issue like a hot cake assured the country that he would not take the U. S. in even if he had the power to do so, advised Democrats to discard the question...
...that the Pulitzer Poetry Prize has been conferred on curly-headed youngster George Dillon (TIME, May 9), poetry-addicts will reach off their shelves two volumes not yet dog's-eared from fervent use. These volumes will be Boy in the Wind (1929) and The Flowering Stone (1931), which later won its author, besides the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim award...