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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British loan to help Italy develop Ethiopia has never ceased to be "in the cards." It was predicted in London banking circles even while Anthony Eden was at his most fervent in Geneva, hurling the thunderbolts of Sanctions at defiant Benito Mussolini (TIME, Oct. 21, 1935 et seq). Last week this British loan was just around the corner, according to the most orthodox of London and Rome correspondents...
...been beneficial to have known beforehand that "Sanctions" as the League of Nations chose to apply them were going to be worse than useless. If it had been further known that the British were secretly playing tit-tat-toe with Italy and France behind Geneva's back (TIME, Oct. 14, 1935, et seq.}, the League states would never have voted Sanctions. In lost trade, Sanctions must have cost at least $275,000,000-a particularly dead loss. Last week, when the Inter-American Peace Conference rose, it had been definitely ascertained that Argentina will NOT be a party...
...went on record as horse racing's most prosperous year. In 15 states that permit pari-mutuel betting, $1,000,000,000 changed hands. Leading jockey of the year was Basil James, with 239 winners through last week. Leading trainer was the onetime pigeon fancier, Hirsch Jacobs (TIME, Oct. 26), with 173 winners. Leading horse of the year was Granville, who won $110,000. And the most extraordinary records of the racing year were those of two utterly dissimilar race horse owners. One was 24-year-old Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. The other was Sangreal's owner, Mrs. Ethel...
With the inauguration of two-station broadcasts, WOR and WGN formed Mutual Broadcasting System on Oct. 1, 1934. They agreed to seek advertisers who wanted to utilize both stations, but not to interfere with each other's local programs. WOR and WGN also began exchanging sustaining (noncommercial) programs. Alfred Justin McCosker, president of WOR, became chairman of M. B. S.; Wilbert E. Macfarlane, vice president and business manager of the Chicago Tribune, became president. Mr. Macfarlane has been interested in WGN since the Tribune opened its station in 1925, has refused to let the chains dominate its policies. First...
With an uneven novel of the Philadelphia underworld, Steps Going Down, John Mclntyre won the $4,000 prize as the U. S. entry in a complicated international literary sweepstakes known as the All-Nations Prize Novel Competition (TIME, Sept. 7, Oct. 26). Sponsored by Farrar & Rinehart, Eric Pinker & Adrienne Morrison, the Literary Guild, Warner Brothers and by publishers in ten other countries, the All-Nation's Competition carried a first prize of $19,000. This grand prize was won by a Hungarian woman, onetime secretary in the Hungarian Embassy in Egypt, with this clever, smooth novel written from...