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...quiet the hopefully palpitating hearts of a multitude of U. S. Negroes, the President last week named a Minister to Liberia, which his State Department recently recognized (TIME, June 24). His choice: Lester A. Walton, 54, newshawk of his father-in-law's New York Age, formerly writer for the defunct New York World. He visited Monrovia two years ago, was presented with a leopard skin by Liberia's President Barclay, attended sessions of the International Liberian Com-mission at Geneva. Clean shaven, bald, a modest family man, he will now return to Liberia taking his wife...
...have been largely driven into hiding but still extant is the National Council of Japanese Trade Unions and in Manhattan last week arrived its chairman, doughty Mr. Kanju Kato. Ever fearless of the "patriotic" assassins who have often tried to get him, Mr. Kato bluntly answered a Herald Tribune newshawk's question: "Have...
...impressed by Franklin Roosevelt's preachment of "the more abundant life." Last week one of the most impressed Canadians, slight, smart, sandy-haired Robert Cromie, editor-publisher of the Vancouver Sun, attended a Roosevelt press conference. "What would you say was the social objective of the Administration?" asked Newshawk Cromie. Obligingly, the President replied to his friend from over the border, waiving the White House rule against direct quotation...
...words were still an important factor in Midwestern Republicanism. And furthermore he was about to be the chief speaker at a great Republican rally at Springfield, Ill. Mr. Hoover, who attends no rallies, wanted to see him first. What they had to discuss appeared that evening when a newshawk caught up with Pilgrim Hoover in Chicago. In one sentence Mr. Hoover described their conference...
...changing moods and movements of nine million soldiers, unknown millions of peasants, hundreds of thousands of industrial workers, individuals can be given little space. Yet Author Chamberlin turns again & again to the enigmatic figure of Lenin, writes of him with an historian's objectivity rather than with a newshawk's interest in a spectacular figure. He insists on Lenin's cold colorlessness, even while relating how Lenin plotted to disguise himself as a deaf-&-dumb Swede in order to return to Russia; how he escaped arrest by hiding successively in a loft, a hut in a hayfield...