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...Madam Minister Harriman, asked a newshawk, expect to negotiate a reciprocal trade treaty with Norway...
...candidates run without party labels, but everybody knew that Mayor Shaw is a nominal Republican and that Candidate Ford is currently Chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee, although he made an unsuccessful race for Congress as a Republican in 1932. Because 53-year-old Candidate Ford, an oldtime newshawk, was identified as a liberal and Mayor Shaw, a former grocery salesman, was known as a tried and true conservative, the outcome was a foregone conclusion. In Los Angeles, no one damned as a liberal can count on the all-powerful support of the Red-hating Chamber of Commerce...
Strictly nonpolitical, the A. L. I. nevertheless last week was the field for one more joust in a historic political quarrel. Every newshawk assigned to Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel knew that a letter of greeting from Franklin Roosevelt would be read to the Institute's 15th annual meeting, and that Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes would address some "informal remarks." They expected that Mr. Hughes would mention the work of the Supreme Court. Overt conflict over the President's plan to rejuvenate the Supreme Court would naturally be as remote as the conflict in ideology...
There was no Newshawk Matthews to provide a trustworthy analysis of the number of foreigners fighting for the Rightists last week, but most impartial reporters on the spot agree that there are 40,000 Italian soldiers on Spanish soil, 20,000 Germans. Thousands of Italian troops unappreciative of the political differences which have set Spanish brothers at one another's throats, have genuinely volunteered for Spanish service for the sake of a bonus dangled before them by Dictator Mussolini, of from 1,000 to 3,000 lire ($53 to $159). Other Italian soldiers have simply been notified that volunteers...
Every alert newshawk knew that George Alexander Ball, the 74-year-old Muncie, Ind. fruit-jar maker, had been listening attentively to offers for the stocks by which he controlled the $3,000,000,000 Van Sweringen rail and real-estate empire (TIME, April 19). They knew, too, how for a mere $3,121,000 old Mr. Ball and his friend George A. Tomlinson, the Great Lakes ship operator, had bought that control from a Morgan banking group at the most spectacular auction in Wall Street history; how Mr. Ball had expected the Vans to make a comeback...