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Hard Lines. George Earle is not just a politician with an eye on the main chance, nor is he just a puppet of either the Democratic machine or Labor. To swing to the liberal wing of politics, a son of wealth has to be endowed with a considerable fund of convictions. George Earle's convictions on civil liberty, against tyranny of any kind, were demonstrated during his two years as Minister to Austria. There he was so little able to conceal his dislike of Hitlerism that Nazis made threats to blow up the U. S. legation. A dictatorship...
...most vital French news event of last week occurred in England, where Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon quietly asked of Parliament, and very shortly was granted, leave to add a billion dollars (?200,000,000) to the Exchange Equalization Fund of $750,000,000 with which John Bull has been operating in the world's money markets. He revealed that last March 30 the Fund possessed 26.674,000 oz. of fine gold, or $933,590,000 worth, compared to $2,584470,000 owned by the Bank of England and $11,000,000,000 worth...
...some of his own symphonic jazz, featured such radio soloists as Jane Pickens, Lucy Monroe, Lucille Manners, the Four Southernaires. Young Donald Dickson of the Metropolitan sang a song from The Vagabond King. Of the $7,000 raised by this concert, part went to Mayor Wilson's Milk Fund, part to the Orchestra's summer concerts at bosky Robin Hood Dell. Two days later, with dark Spanish Jose Iturbi on the podium, the Dell concerts officially began...
Coffin Childs Memorial Fund to be "devoted primarily to medical research into the causes and origins of cancer. . . . [It is] the greatest gift yet made to Yale by friends who prefer anonymity. . . . [It] represents the greatest opportunity of its kind ever given any university...
...Childs, Manhattan utilitarian whose wife, Jane Coffin Childs. died last October, soon left the alumni gathering. Son Starling W. Jr., who remained, eventually explained: "My mother died of cancer and my father has never forgotten it. He has always wanted to do something about it. He has established the fund together with another person, who prefers to remain anonymous, as his contribution to the fight against the disease. The fund is created primarily to inquire into the causes of cancer rather than into its cure...