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Curiously, it was in a jail that the year's end found the little half-naked brown man whose 1930 mark on world history will undoubtedly loom largest of all. It was exactly twelve months ago that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's Indian National Congress promulgated the Declaration of Indian Independence (TIME, Jan. 13). It was in March that he marched to the sea to defy Britain's salt tax as some New Englanders once defied a British tea tax. It was in May that Britain jailed Gandhi at Poona. Last week he was still there, and some...
...been established, stories of gentlemen's agreements are given scant credence.? That the cartel and the U. S. steel industry would soon be engaged in direct competition seemed likely when the cartel recently started an export division with strategic sales offices. In South America especially did a battle loom. Yet at last week's meeting the export division was abandoned, cartel members apparently having enough trouble in settling their home problems...
...Nearly 70 years have passed since Lincoln spoke [here]. Ours is a new day and ours new problems. There are times when these problems loom ominous and their solution difficult. Yet we would be of little courage if in our concerns we had less faith than Lincoln had in his far greater task. . . . If only our leadership had always been tempered by the moderation and calm vision of Lincoln...
...TARIFFS. Plainly, if the States of Europe ever begin to trade like those of the U. S. ? that is without the balks and checks of tariffs between States ? then Europe, which already cuts below U. S. prices, should be able so to increase her efficiency as to loom as an appalling rival in the race for world trade...
...wrote that "prerevolutionary Russia, with its lack of energy and strength, expressed in the philosophy of a genuine artist, has receded into the past." Roughly, Dostoievski and Tolstoi are as representative of contemporary Russia as are Nathaniel Parker Willis and James Fenimore Cooper of the U. S. Strange names loom on the Soviet art-frontier. To know Russian esthetics one must be familiar with the work of Theatre Producers Meyerhold, Tairov; Cinema Directors Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Room. Preobrazhenskaya; Poets Yessenin, Maiakovski, Asejev, Blok; Authors Ogniev. Bogdanov, Malashkin; Artists Gabo, Vinogradov, Radimov; and understand the meaning of the Russian symbols, MGSPS. VAPP...