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...public until the Committee found the names of two of Wall Street's biggest bear speculators, of an ex-heavyweight champion, of the right-hand man of a famed promoter all nicely linked together with Edward J. Flynn who, next to Boss Farley, was henchman since times far back...
From the sidelines in San Antonio, Tex., a broadside called Frente á Frente ("Face to Face")* last week let loose an inkpot of rage against Boss Calles and his henchman Aaron Saenz, Governor of Mexico's Federal District. Its cover was a foot-and-a-half high cartoon of Calles as a redhanded, man-eating gorilla, slavering across a field of skulls (see cut). Its prose, however, was no match for this pictorial violence. One article printed in groping English described a government that could ban the word "God" from the textbooks as "such ossy, ossy, phally, prehistoric boneheads...
Since to hand over the Saar is a complex business, the Council left all details to Premier Benito Mussolini's keen henchman at Geneva, Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Chairman of the League's Saar Committee (TIME, Dec. 17). If the Committee gets bogged before Feb. 15, Baron Aloisi will ask the Council to meet in extraordinary session, cut Gordian knots...
Election prospects revolve around the Conservative Premier, his official opponent Liberal Party Leader William Lyon. MacKenzie King (now in frail health) and the unofficial opposition now rapidly crystallizing around nominal Conservative Henry Stevens, a onetime Bennett henchman who set himself up as hero of the mob with his Philippic against routine Canadian business practice (TIME, Nov. 5). This included violent denunciation of Canadian Woolworth Stores because they cut wages (later raised) at the same time as did U. S. Woolworth Stores, obeying circular orders from company headquarters in Manhattan's Woolworth Building. This Orator Stevens has turned virtually into...
Meanwhile 3,000 sweating coolies were finishing up the Dictator's new war base air field at Haichow, 250 miles from Shanghai. To Generalissimo Chiang's somewhat decadent henchman-in-arms "Young Marshal" Chang Huseh-liang, Boeing Airplane Co. delivered last week a superspeed, de luxe transport plane, luxuriously upholstered and bristling with chromium gadgets...