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...Louis just a year ago, a glum, well-built Negro won the U. S. amateur light-heavyweight boxing championship by scoring his 34th knockout in the finals of the A. A. U. tournament. Last week in Chicago, as glum as ever, though he is picked by many experts as the next heavyweight champion of the world, Heavyweight Joe Louis continued his surprising career as a professional with his 14th knockout in 18 fights, against a thick-skulled New Jersey trial horse named Roy Lazer. At the ringside, more worried about Louis than his next opponent, James J. Braddock, whom...
Three months ago private power men would have hailed the Grubb opinion as a major victory. Last week, preparing for Congressional hearings on the Administration's bill to eliminate utility holding companies, they were almost too glum to notice it. Meanwhile, utility shares collapsed to a new historic...
...gleaming motor vehicles -an intoxicating prospect for a one-time housepainter-stretched in broad expanse before Der Reichsführer. Eight thousand German cars, cycle-cars, motorcycles, delivery wagons and trucks reduced to insignificance some 40 foreign cars shown by Italian, British, French, Czechoslovak, Belgian and Austrian firms. Glum U. S. dealers in Berlin showed nothing, protested, "Dr. Schacht has cut our quota so low that it isn't worth while. There are ten Germans who want to buy American cars for every one we can sell them...
...forcing Generalissimo Chiang to lower tariffs on leading Japanese exports to China and up tariffs on leading imports from the U. S., Britain and Russia (TIME. Aug. 20). So slick and silent was that double-edged trade victory that it made scarcely any news in the Occident. Say glum Shanghai tycoons: "To China the new tariffs are as disastrous as the loss of three provinces." Last week they shivered to think what Minister Ariyoshi and General Suzuki might be imposing upon Generalissimo Chiang. According to Tokyo's Nichi Nichi, "General Suzuki is adopting the method of military bluntness...
...associates on The New Yorker would never print were on view in his exhibition last week. Two were blasphemous: The Thurber Madonna and The Three Wise Men (three goggle-eyed oldsters smirking behind their hands at something that might be the Virgin). The third was The Gates of Life. Glum pedestrians hustled by in the background; sprawled on the grass in the foreground was a horrid little girl hoisting her skirts before a legless War veteran, with tears rolling down his cheeks...