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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibly the resignations) of Messrs. Hanes and Morgenthau. The face-saving compromise (influenced in part by press and Congressional pressure) was effected at a White House luncheon topped off by peach shortcake. The President and Tax Revisionist Pat Harrison (who had huffily told Mr. Roosevelt he was going to get a new tax bill whether he liked it or not) were brought together by Jimmy Byrnes, the slickest compromiser in the Senate. Giving in to an extent almost unknown during the New Deal, Mr. Roosevelt finally told Henry ("Henny-Penny"), Morgenthau it was all right if he wanted to tell...
Yawns. The dictators had expected the democracies to get scared over this juncture of totalitarian arms. Instead there were only deep yawns. The British thought an Italian-German alliance, after all that has happened in the last three years, was a pretty Did story. The French, far from being frightened, snickered that Germany had acquired a new protectorate, Italy...
Elusive Promotion. Not many men get into politics as Edouard Daladier did, not many stay in by such shifts as he has made. He got in via the schoolroom door. His father was a baker in the town of Carpentras and he went to public schools. At the Lycée Duparc in Lyon one of his teachers was Edouard Herriot. By winning first in a history competition at the University of Nimes in 1909, young Daladier obtained an appointment as professor of history at Nimes and a fellowship to study in Rome. Professor Daladier, according to his pupils...
...Baptists would be the largest Protestant denomination in the land (10,000,000 members) if their five bodies could only get together.* As it is, they are the most sectarian of sects. Their local congregations distrust creeds, abhor ecclesiastics, are not bound by anything the Conventions say or do. Last week the Southern Baptist Convention, concluding its meeting in Oklahoma City, remained equally independent toward interchurch unity. Baptist John Benjamin Lawrence spoke for his brethren when he deplored the "vast enveloping movement which aims to tie Baptists up in a bundle with other bodies with which they have no ecclesiastical...
...more than $1,000,000 from University of Wisconsin's budget, told University President Clarence A. Dykstra at a budget hearing: "Something is smoldering somewhere and I want to clean it up. I want to get rid of this cancerous growth or kill the patient...