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...finally ended up in Moscow, became a Soviet citizen. Since then, he has built up a reputation as the world's "No. 1 Communist Germ Spreader." He has been accused of fomenting Red intrigues in Hungary, organizing the extreme left wing of Loyalist support in Spain, encouraging the growth of French Communism. Brazil got skitterish when he was reported trying to land at Rio de Janeiro. London had a scare last February, and once Denmark heard that the Communist bogeyman had crept in, disguised as a woman. When Moscow correspondents chased about to verify these rumors they generally found...
...makes clear . . . that art in America is now a sturdy growth, like an elm tree which spreads its roots slowly but far, and eventually reaches great lasting solidity and height...
Governors. The growth of anti-strike sentiment in Michigan was a blow to union hopes. Strike Leader Bittner let it be known that $1,300,000 had already been spent on the steel drive. The union had won a point when Mayor Burton of Cleveland revoked Republic's permit for use of the airport from which planes had provisioned its strike-bound plants in Ohio. It hoped to have non-strikers ousted from those plants by appeals for enforcement of sanitary regulations forbidding the use of mills as living quarters. In Chicago, however, Republic got around a similar maneuver...
Other news concerning the growth of plants came last week from Harvard University, which announced receipt of a gift of $615,773 for a long-range research program to increase the rate at which plants convert solar energy into stores of energy available to man. Donor was Godfrey Lowell Cabot, Boston's blueblooded 76-year-old carbon black manufacturer who graduated from Harvard in 1882, magna cum laude. In memory of his late wife Mr. Cabot designated his gift the Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research...
Before his stockholders gave him a rising vote of thanks last week, Mr. Teagle gave his stockholders a valedictory thumbnail sketch of Standard's growth during his administration. Having already reported 1936 profits of $97,000,000, Mr. Teagle noted: "The basis of our business is crude oil. In the year preceding my election our interests produced 9,658,000 bbl. In the year for which you have just had a report our production was 206,356,000 bbl. In 1916 our share of the total world production was less than 2%. Last year...