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...rifles, sabers, bayonets, bombs, shells or shrapnel. In 1934 Nickel's officers estimated that not more than 5% of nickel produced was used for military purposes, whereas 20% was going into automobiles. But in any wartime period Nickel's business would obviously take on a more martial air and last week Mr. Stanley conceded that some of 1935'' record-breaking consumption was caused by "certain world powers" building up their nickel reserves...
...short, plump man, Romberg is at his best composing martial music to be sung by a stageful of actors, played by a pit full of musicians. He gets thundering effects while writing his music in his penthouse on Manhattan's Park Avenue by an arrangement which permits him to play a piano and an organ at the same time. More like ponderous Rudolf Friml than graceful Jerome Kern, ''Rommy" Romberg is probably the best-known second-flight popular composer in the world...
...impossible not to loathe and admire Captain Bligh just as much as in the book. From the moment he ordered the flogging of the dead sailor to the instant when he left the court martial, we felt just as strongly as Fletcher Christian. Even during his moments of greatness when he was navigating an open boat 3500 miles out of sight of land, he never lost his sadistic and narrow outlook. Charles Laughton became Captain Bligh...
When Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge ousted his politically hostile State Highway Commission by declaring martial law and setting National Guardsmen with machine guns over highway funds (TIME, July 3, 1933), there were few more interested observers than a young politician named Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston across the Savannah River in South Carolina. No sooner had he entered his State's Legislature in 1929 than Representative Johnston began charging the head of South Carolina's State Highway Commission, potent Ben Mack Sawyer, with political skulduggery. Next year he ran for Governor with the slogan "Out with Tsar...
Died. Brigadier General Jacob F. ("Jake") Wolters. 64, general counsel and chief lobbyist of Texas Co., onetime commander of the 56th Cavalry Brigade (Texas National Guard), longtime administrator of martial law in Texas; of a heart ailment; in Austin. Because of a political feud with Governor James V. Allred ("The first thing I'll do is bust 'General Jake' to a buck private in the rear ranks'"). Wolters retired last year just before Allred was inaugurated...