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...year-old George M. Cohan gave 55-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Actor Cohan, prime Down East favorite, was appearing in the tryout run of the George S. Kaufman-Moss Hart satire, I'd Rather Be Right, due on Broadway next month. Mummer Cohan wore a pince-nez, assumed a Groton inflection in opening his fireside chats. Musing on budget-balancing and third terms, he sang a song called Off The Record, confiding "I'm very fond of Eleanor, but I never read her column,'' vouchsafing further, with intervals of hoofing...
...last week to celebrate Independence Day, 116th anniversary of the little nation's liberation from Spain. Crowning the day's ceremonies was the bestowal by the Chamber of Deputies on the curly head of El Salvador's Dictator, President General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, the high-sounding title, "Benefactor of the Nation...
Little El Salvador is admittedly hard up for money, so Benefactor Martínez is hailed by virtually all 1,600,000 Salvadorians for his tightfisted economies during his six-year regime. He led off with a martyrlike 50% slash in his salary, has closed some foreign consulates temporarily, quit, the League of Nations in the struggle to balance the budget (TIME, Aug. 23). With coffee about 80% of her exports, agricultural El Salvador depends for its revenues on a favorable foreign trade balance. Chief coffee customer is Germany. While crying for cash, El Salvador has instead been stuffed with...
Last week in the Assembly, Salvadorians fervently unveiled an engraved plate bearing the new financial doctrine of the little nation. It was an excerpt from Martínez' last speech to Congress: "I propose as the keystone of the nation's policy that it never contract a new loan...
...Roosevelt remedied this state of affairs and did his political ally. Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania, a favor by giving an I. C. C. berth to Senator Guffey's brother-in-law Carroll Miller. Mr. Miller, a lanky six-footer whose lantern jaw, stooped shoulders and pince-nez make him look like a schoolmaster and whose extraordinary drawl and dry wit sometimes make him sound like a Will Rogers type hayseed, hails from Richmond, Va., has spent most of his 62 years running utilities in the U. S. and Japan. Since marrying Mary Emma Guffey...