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...farm problem according to his lights, George Peek became a Democrat. As a Democrat he became head of the AAA. As head of the AAA he quarreled with Braintrusters over the agricultural codes, finally resigned. President Roosevelt made him special foreign trade adviser and head of the Export-Import Banks. Then came the reciprocal trade treaties, which George Peek thought Secretary Hull was mishandling. So he quit the Democrats for good. Last week he completed the cycle, announced, after twice publicly postponing his selection, that the man who would give the farmers the best break from the White House...
...wild scramble by His Majesty's Government to readjust their ideas and Mr. Chamberlain's. To Geneva this week hurried the Chancellor's most distinguished subordinate, Mr. William Shepherd ("Shakespeare") Morrison. In the only speech to the current League Assembly which had any real importance, Mr. Morrison virtually reversed the highly nationalist position Mr. Chamberlain had taken at Margate, called for international abolition of import quotas and exchange controls...
...consequence, successful dances have become a point of vital import. In the past there have been mad scrambles for the most favorable dates, a rush for orchestras and tendency towards higher-priced bands which could not always be reasonably afforded, and contests in ticket scalping and advertising...
Last week Washington newshawks discovered the import of this exchange when Madam Minister Owen joyfully confirmed reports that she was about to marry for the third time. Husband No. 3 was to be Captain Boerge Rohde, tall, flaxen-haired member of King Christian's Life Guards. Kammerjunker (Gentleman-in-Waiting) Kaptajn Rohde, his fiancee confided, was 42, musically inclined, a graceful dancer, a man of wit & humor. They had met at His Majesty's New Year's Eve court ball seven months ago. In 1903 Ruth Bryan married a U. S. artist named William Homer Leavitt, bore...
...China goes to war with any country except Germany, the Reich will "employ its good offices" to enable China to import munitions...