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...further decree of the Fuhrer last week, No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Goring will exercise the functions of Acting Minister of Economics until January 15. On that date Herr Walther Funk, considered a Goring henchman and today a state secretary in the Propaganda Ministry, be- comes Economics Minister...
...find themselves and their old homes now in the new state of Czechoslovakia. From the Sudetes Mountains many of them take the name of Sudetendeutsch, and leader of the Sudetendeutsch Partei is pudgy but strenuous Herr Konrad Henlein. He was embarrassed recently by the arrest of his chief henchman, Hans Henrich Rutha, and 16 young men as homosexuals...
...Tammany has one greater difficulty: if it does not dominate the politics of the other boroughs, it will be dominated by them. The Democratic boss of The Bronx is Edward J. Flynn, an oldtime henchman of Jim Farley and onetime Secretary of State in Governor Franklin Roosevelt's State cabinet. He and Boss Kelly of Brooklyn, Boss Sheridan of Queens and Boss Fetherston of Richmond agreed on a ticket. When Tammany met it was split into at least three factions and Leader Dooling, ill abed and acting by proxy, was in danger of being unable to name...
...mention of any King. It provides for the election of a President having somewhat the ornamental powers of the President of France, with most of the executive job being done, as in France, by a Premier. In Dublin last week Mr. de Valera was said to want his trusty henchman Sean T. O'Kelly elected President, himself to become Premier...
...Honors List created two additional barons and a viscount, each of these new peers being a Conservative Party henchman of long service. The Prime Minister's good wife, Mrs. Lucy Baldwin, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, got her admirable oar in with the elevation last week of Juliet, Lady Williams to the rank of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her nationwide campaign to provide cheaply pain-deadening drugs to British mothers in childbirth. Of six new baronetcies two were awarded to onetime Actor Sir Derwent Hall Caine, son of Author...