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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This meeting was at Franklin Roosevelt's invitation. It was an act, not of self-abasement like Neville Chamberlain's trip to Munich, but of cheerful desperation. He wanted to tell the Senate's leaders face to face why he needed a free hand in world power politics, what was going on in the mad world abroad...
...manager of 1925, has been immensely' wealthy and powerful since he polished up Huey Long's manners in 1927, taught him to play golf and enjoy himself in night clubs. Weiss became pressagent for the Roosevelt Hotel the same year, gave bounding Huey and his bodyguards a free suite of rooms for the publicity, has harvested ever since from that...
Circulating in world capitals for days were vague reports that the British Government was again negotiating with Adolf Hitler over the impending crisis in the Free City of Danzig. One account told of a "positive peace plan" in which the Germans would be offered an international loan of $5,000,000,000 to enable them to change the Third Reich's economy from a war to a peace basis. Another story, originating in Washington and printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, predicted a five-nation conference between Great Britain. France, Germany, Italy and Poland which would give Danzig to Germany...
...wrapping material -odorless, tasteless, impervious to fire and corrosion by acids-made from bentonite clay and called "Alsifilm" (TIME, Nov. 7). Alsifilm is already being used to replace mica (isinglass) in electric motor and generator insulation. Last week Professor Hauser looked forward to a time when Alsifilm would free the U. S. of dependence on foreign supplies of mica, now largely imported from India...
...President Sophie Tucker, stout trouper who is widely regarded as a lovable prop executive, held an A. F. A. meeting to get a vote of confidence. Miss Tucker wept, a blonde bit another actor, there was a free-for-all and no vote of confidence. Last week as the A. F. A. trial opened, Miss Tucker, other executives and A. F. A. lawyers walked out on it, charging that it was packed and illegal...