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...shrinking business), and Irving (Isadore) Penn, 42, royalties manager for G. Schirmer, Inc., music publishers. A jolly homebody with no interest outside of his family (wife & two children), music publishing (he was up to $4,200-a-year from office boy after 22 years) and the New York Giants. Mr. Penn stood 5 ft. 8 in., weighed 240 lb.; Mr Orlovsky, 5 ft. 6 in., 260 lb. Each used to leave home for work about...
...comprehensive review of foreign policy in the last scheduled foreign policy debate before Parliament adjourns this week for three months. Besides discussing the dispute with Japan and the prospects of an alliance with Russia he generalized on the state of the world. Unlike 1938, when he was optimistic, Mr. Chamberlain this week found it "difficult to see" how the world armament race could be solved except "by war itself." But he hoped that a way might yet be found out of the "present nightmare into the sunlight of peace...
...concessions to Japan. The Tokyo talks between Negotiators Sir Robert and Arita reached a crucial stage. Japan demanded as the price of raising the Tientsin blockade that Great Britain cease supporting Chinese currency and turn over to her the Chinese silver stocks deposited in British Concessions. On this point Mr. Chamberlain has said that he would never yield. Last week, with the U.S. throwing a scare into the Japanese, concession seemed out of the question, even if it meant breaking off the parley...
Like many another minister who comes to London these days, Mr. Nash wanted to borrow money. New Zealand's Minister of Finance, Mr. Nash is also the author and executor of a comprehensive economic plan designed to turn agricultural New Zealand into a nation which can at least partially produce its own manufactured goods, and thus be less dependent on world prices. Although realizing that New Zealand will not for a long time be able to supply all its wants, Minister Nash's idea is to build factories to enable the country to manufacture "secondary" articles...
Against such a background neither Mr. Nash nor his Labor Government was expected to get much sympathy from London's big financiers, who are far more interested in interest payments than in social experiments. The liberal British weekly New Statesman and Nation likened Mr. Nash in the City (London's Wall Street) to Daniel in the lions' den, recalled how badly both the British Labor Government of 1929-31 and the French Popular Front Government of 1936-38 had fared at the hands of the big bankers. There were predictions that before Mr. Nash could renew...