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...said Mr. Welles, was proof that the new Division "is not a propaganda agency." Further proof was the State Department's choice of a Cultural Relations chief: Dr. Ben Mark Cherrington of the University of Denver. A onetime University of California football coach whose size (6 ft., 200 Ib.) is calculated to impress Latin Americans, white-mopped, genial Dr. Cherrington, 52, is no doctrinaire. Twelve years ago when Capitalist James Henry Causey, his conscience stricken by the violent Denver tramway strike of 1920, undertook to finance a Foundation for the Advancement of Social Sciences at the University of Denver...
...constitutionality of the new AAA as it applies to tobacco. The five-month-old crop law was designed to keep up prices by sales quota for each tobacco region. On all tobacco sold over the quota there are penalty taxes of 50% of the market price or 3? a Ib. if the excess tobacco sold goes for less than 6?. Last week saw the opening of 1938 tobacco auctions in Georgia and Florida with the crop larger than last year (88,047,000 Ib.) and substantially higher than the quotas. Angry planters in both States immediately got injunctions suspending collection...
...North Atlantic as cool as cream: they made eight flights in 1936, 14 in 1937, and this year they will make 28, two a week, with the Nordmeer, Nordwind and Nordstern, all Hamburg Ha. 1395 with four Diesel engines, a catapult start, and a payload of only 880 Ib. Lufthansa would like to start flying mail any day now, but it has been allowed to use Pan American's sea base at Port Washington only if it waits till Pan American can match it flight for flight...
...Beck thinking. The results: 1) He suggested to the Washington State Federation of Labor that A. F. of L. and C. I. O. might do well to make peace, the better to fight their common enemies. 2) He disclosed that by diet and exercise he has taken off 44 Ib. in three months, has got down to a fit 170, the better to fight his enemies. Encased in heavy pants, rubber vest, rubber coat, two sweaters, he sweats his way around the University of Washington track every morning at 6 o'clock , flexes the Beck muscles on a rowing...
Born. To Ethel du Pont Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.; a son, their first child, eighth grandchild of the 32nd U. S. President; in Philadelphia. Name: Franklin Delano Roosevelt III. Weight: 7 Ib...