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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they don't. But there is no difference of opinion among observers about Governor Earle. They agree he would dearly love the Democratic nomination in 1940. Senator Wheeler remarked ironically: "Governor Earle reminds me of John Alden. Why don't you speak for yourself, Governor?" In the largest sense Governor Earle was doing nothing else and he had four good reasons for his announcement in addition to getting off an immediate political hot spot: i) It is a rule of politics that any man who wants to be President must deny that he does. 2) As matters...
...Meanwhile at Bilbao and in the 15-mile swath of Rightist advance last week the Leftists had lost the richest iron mines, the largest smelters and steel mills and some of the finest munitions plants in all Spain. As any sophisticate of the armament business would expect, correspondents found that the manufacture of projectiles had not even been interrupted. The whirling lathes whined on, turning out gleaming 75-millimetre shells which would now be paid for by the Rightists, whereas a few days before they had been paid for by Leftists. Not only did Rightists attacking planes never bomb these...
Champion Braddock's net return from his share of last week's $715,000 gross receipts, ninth largest in ring history, was some $60,000,* far less than he was offered as a guarantee for fighting Challenger Schmeling. But Champion Braddock's loss was trifling compared to Madison Square Garden's. After last week's fight. Promoter Jacobs signed a five year contract for Champion Louis' exclusive services. Since a condition of fighting Joe Louis will doubtless be for all challengers a similar contract with Promoter Jacobs, Louis' victory last week gave Promoter...
...thorough disrepute (TIME, Feb. 18, 1935 & March 2, 1936). This scandal combined last year with a freight war (making it cheaper to ship pepper to the U. S. than to Europe) to steer many pepper consignments to New York instead of London. For years the world's largest pepper user (30%), the U. S. then for the first time displaced England as a pepper mart. This led logically to last week's establishment of pepper trading on the busy floor of the New York Produce Exchange...
...must be kept in licensed warehouses subject to inspection. The trading unit is 33,600 lb. of Lampong (Netherlands East Indies) black pepper, with Aleppy and Tellicherry (British India) as optional deliveries. Pepper prices are currently very low (6? per lb.) because last year's crop was the largest in history (87,000 tons were shipped) and there is now a glut of pepper on the market. But this is the fifth year since new plantings matured and the down-roll of the pepper cycle is due soon, meaning smaller crops and, agreed pepper experts last week, much higher...