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Thin-faced, argumentative Communist Granville ("Granny") Hicks, 36, had been a storm centre before, for he had been fired from a teaching job. New Hampshire-born, a Yankee moralist, Granny Hicks was graduated with highest honors from Harvard ('23) and its Divinity School, taught Biblical literature and English at Smith College for three years, and assisted Harvard's famed Professor Bliss Perry before going to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an associate professor of English in 1929. By 1935, with The Great Tradition, a Marxist survey of U. S. literature since the Civil War, and a stream of contributions...
...Fairbanks, who owns a freighter and a South Sea island and who "does what he does when he wants to do it," tries to convince Miss Dunne, highest star in the Broadway heavens, that she should shake the call of duty to her career and her family. His main hurdle lies in showing her what leeches and rodents are her family, which she keeps in antiques and good liquor. Success is his, by means of a rousing drunk, Hollywood's perennial ice-breaker, which occupies most of the picture...
...reliably reported content of the draft treaty as it stands today (subject to minor alterations before it is made public and offered for ratification in London and in Rome) was scooped last week by famed "Augur" (see p. 55). The regular press services soon afterward had it from highest British and Italian quarters. In general the treaty is to secure against Italian aggression British trade routes and spheres of influence on the Mediterranean and Red Seas, and to secure against British aggression the Italian trade routes and territories in this area, including Ethiopia (see map). The treaty would become operative...
...sleeping. At this point Marvin Mclntyre, who had previously telephoned to advise the correspondents to hold their "overnight" stories for a mysterious Presidential announcement, arrived with a handful of typewritten sheets which he proceeded to distribute. Ready for something remarkable, the reporters found the release up to their highest expectations...
...business indices last week there was evidence of little but stagnation. Steel production rose from 33% to 35% of capacity, highest point since November. Car loadings rose a mite in expectation of the new rates. But lumber output was off 6% for the week, power production 2%, oil production 0.8%, soft coal 8%. Bank clearings were at a new low since 1934 but gold was pouring into the country at a rate which showed that the rest of the world still thinks the U. S. the safest place to cache its valuables. The stock market proceeded to slip from...