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...boss Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, has piled up an impressive casualty list of dead and wounded (TIME, Sept. 6), the revolting farmers found an unexpected ally. From the obscurity of his self-imposed exile in Merges, Switzerland, 76-year-old Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski cracked out a manifesto...
Dictator Smigly-Rydz, knowing that Pianist-Statesman Paderewski had conferred in Switzerland with Witos and other opponents of the military "Colonels' clique" that dominates Warsaw, immediately suppressed every Warsaw paper that attempted to print the Paderewski manifesto (which compelled the secret circulation of the manifesto hand-to-hand), and replied to Paderewski's demand for the cessation of reprisals against the Peasant Party with a new crop of arrests...
...army's leader, Lieut. Colonel Ramón Paredes, issued a manifesto: "The unanimous will of the army and navy is that the eminent citizen, Colonel Franco, will continue President of the Government." Two days later, however, ''Eminent Citizen" Rafael Franco, who seized the Presidency also by a bloodless coup in 1936, found himself somewhat less eminent, was "asked" to resign, because he refused to form a Cabinet amenable to the military. Law Professor Félix Paiva, Dean and Rector of the University of Asunción, Vice President in 1920, was named Provisional President...
...days later, Vanderbilt lost another landmark as courtly little Poet John Crowe Ransom (Grace After Meat), co-author of the famed agrarian manifesto I'll Take My Stand and a pillar of Vanderbilt's English department for 23 years, took a job at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. When his fellow poet and agrarian, Alumnus Allen Tate, wrote an open letter of protest to Chancellor Kirkland, Poet Ransom explained that small, hustling Kenyon had offered him, besides more time for writing, $5,000 a year and a house as against Vanderbilt...
FORTUNE found that the real story dates back to last June, when Steelman Taylor sailed for Europe "in a peculiarly philosophic mood." Just before he sailed he had opposed, though not strongly enough to stop it, the manifesto published in paid advertisements last summer by the American Iron & Steel Institute declaring war on John L. Lewis. It was evident to Mr. Taylor that Steel's traditional "blood and brimstone" labor policies were thoroughly outmoded. Yet "to give in to Labor spinelessly meant to lose control over the business one had been hired to manage. To fight Labor adamantly meant...