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First came the report of the Royal Commission under Sir John Simon (TIME, June 30, 1930). That was largely junked after the unexpected declaration of India's reigning princes at the First India Round Table Conference that they were willing to enter an All-India Federation with the plebeian native states (TIME, Dec. 1, 1930). Two more India Round Table Conferences left up in the air the crux of the whole business: Saint Gandhi's demand for "Dominion Status" (TIME, Jan. 2, 1933). Finally the National Government smothered India's aspiration to rank beside Canada with...
Jitters, Lawyer, banker, scholar, Fellow of Brown University, 66-year-old Governor Green belongs by birth to Rhode Island's Republican mill-owning class but has cast his lot with plebeian Democrats. Last week he was an old man badly frightened when he asked his State Assembly for: 1) $100,000 to up the State police force from 51 to 1,000 during the emergency; 2) $100,000 more to put 1,000 War veterans under arms; 3) power to close any or all textile mills in the State; 4) power to call in Federal troops, which he said...
Desirable (Warner). The story about the actress whose grown daughter imperils her career and interrupts her romance is familiar to cinemaddicts. So is the story of the plebeian beauty who. visiting the patrician parents of her fiance, shocks them by saying "My father was a florist." Desirable combines these two stories in a program picture which contains a few well-written sequences but not enough to make it valid either as comedy or problem play. Verree Teasdale, George Brent and Jean Muir perform competently...
...Massachusetts there are two branches of the Coolidge family which claim only the remotest kin. The more plebeian branch produced the 30th President of the U. S. The new Undersecretary of the Treasury stems from the more aristocratic...
...their wish. The interwoven strands of their careers make up a pattern so complicated that at times it resembles a crazy quilt, but Author Josephson's patient unraveling shows a general if sometimes unconscious concentric design, spiraling ever closer to monopolistic unity. Rough-&-ready "Commodore" Cornelius Vander Bilt, plebeian founder of a proudly aristocratic family, trusted nobody, kept all his accounts in his head. One of his business letters: Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I will not site you, for law takes too long. I "will ruin you. Sincerely yours, Cornelius Vanderbilt. On his deathbed he refused...