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Whatever stir Dictator Mussolini thought was going to result from this latest of dictator-manufactured crises, French citizenry in Tunisia and Corsica and French officialdom in Paris responded by getting good and mad. In Tunis an angry mob, forming spontaneously, serpentined through the narrow streets shouting "Down with Italy!" and "Long Live France!" Forcing stray Italians caught in the crowd to remove their Fascist insignia, the paraders wrecked an Italian bookstore, flinging newspapers and books into the streets, raided the offices of the Italian Line, broke into the plant of the Italian newsorgan Fascista Unione. Reinforced police squads narrowly prevented...
...deeper than ever last week. And so were the union and all Newton. After persuading 350 sit-inners to surrender the plant, Iowa's Governor Nelson G. Kraschel proposed that they accept the cut and return to work, was promptly turned down by the union. At that, Newton officialdom and business went into action. Businessmen asked Sheriff Earl Shields to recruit 1,000 deputies, encouraged a back-to-work movement which by last fortnight claimed 611 adherents among Maytag workers...
...rise in seven years from an obscure Tuberculosis & Health Association worker to the front rank of Federal officialdom is one of the major phenomena of the New Deal. It could not have been done by a character less elastic and resilient. He has not let his prodigious capacity for work stunt his private life. He likes par ties on Long Island, weekends at Sara toga, shirtsleeve poker with Jesse Jones & cronies. His little house in Georgetown, which he took to be near James Roosevelt, has been more of a sleeping place than a home to him since his second wife...
Although the Japanese Government officially apologized and paid this bill with the greatest speed possible to officialdom, penitent Japanese civilians were even quicker, have been going around to able U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew with all sorts of small & large contributions, many brought by Japanese school children shepherded by their teachers. In Joe Crew's nondescript kitty there was $10,800 last week when the Ambassador was authorized by Good Neighbor Roosevelt to establish this as a trust fund in perpetuity, income to be spent entirely in Japan "for purposes testifying to good will between Japan...
...case, the fact cannot be circumscribed that the Fund has misplaced the stamp of Harvard officialdom on a charity which, from an educational standpoint, obviously concerns only a small piece of the University...