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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began with a preamble, in which the President dismissed the campaign against his bill to reorganize the Executive branch of the Federal Government (TIME, April 4) as "organized effort on the part of political or special self-interest groups." There followed a letter, dated two days earlier, to a friend whose name the President said he was withholding "because he did not write for publicity purposes." In the letter the President set forth, in 1,100 words, not only his personal disinclination to be a U. S. dictator but his objections to proposed amendments in the Reorganization Bill. Loudly demanded...
...exhibited rarely. Last week's show was his first in the U. S. A slight, dark-haired man with a pale, pointed face and sharp eyes, Balthus is married to a Swiss girl, lives in a studio apartment on Paris' Cour de Rohan. He is a close friend of Author Andr éGide and, in spite of his frightening portrait, admires André Derain above all modern artists...
...most endearing elephants. Jean de Brunhoff was the creator of Babar, the elephant whose life and high times he illustrated in a series of picture books read by children the world over. Babar, his Queen Celeste, his kindly adviser Cornelius, his mischievous little cousin Arthur and his friend the Old Lady, were all invented during bed-time stories told by Artist de Brunhoff to his three little boys. Between 1932 and 1937, five Babar books were published in France, translated into English. A few months before he died at 37, M. de Brunhoff designed costumes and sets for Babar...
Publisher Paul Block is a squat, sallow, bald little Punch. Stray strands of grey criss-cross his polished dome, its grey fringe bristles when he gets excited, which is often. He pleasantly insists that friendships are his "hobby." One great & good friend whom he has long had is William Randolph Hearst. Partly with Hearst money, Mr. Block acquired nine substantial dailies...
...Continental Bank stock in the Hercules treasury. And Mr. Giannini officially retreated behind the Great Divide when Transamerica sold Manhattan's old Bank of America to National City in 1931. By that deal Transamerica became National City's biggest stockholder, and in 1933 A. P. and his friend John Francis Neylan went on the National City board of directors, where they still sit. Thus the idea that A. P. was marching eastward again, a periodic rumor, was slightly absurd, because A. P. still had a heavy, if minority, stake in the East. His new stake in Chicago banking...