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Dates: during 1930-1939
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French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet urged Leftist Spain to think twice before sending bombers over Italy, warned Premier Dr. Juan Negrin's Government that it could expect little sympathy or aid from France in that event. In Italy, the controlled press fumed at "Red Spain." Benito Mussolini's journalistic spokesman, Virginio Gayda, writing in Giornale d'Italia, said Italy's answer to Leftist bombs "will be immediate and implacable, not with diplomatic notes of protest, but with cannon." Italian Chargé d'Affaires Renato Prunas warned M. Bonnet in Paris: "We shall reply to acts...
...44th birthday of the Duke of Windsor passed by in Great Britain last week with no other press notice than a seven-word announcement in the London Daily Telegraph. But the society of The Octavians, several hundred Britishers who have banded together to perpetuate the memory of the Duke as Edward VIII, were determined to accord the day more formal recognition. Some 250 members, largely middle-aged men and women, crowded into a second-rate restaurant in London's Holborn district for a commemorative dinner and dance. From the French Riviera, where he is summering with the Duchess...
...member of the League in little but name, the Government of Switzerland is cool to playing host to the League which is permanently planted in a new, $10,000,000 palace in Geneva. Last week the German press took up the problem. Under Switzerland's new neutral position the further stay of "the one-sided power and propaganda apparatus of the League on Swiss soil must become a constant and embarrassing burden for the Swiss Government," warned the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung...
...conversations with John L. Lewis and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, Big Steel last week said not a word, but the press reported that the company was trying to persuade Mr. Lewis to accept a wage cut as amicably as U. S. Steel accepted unionization a year and a half ago. Big Steel's subsequent action in cutting prices without cutting wages was thus more striking. It came also just as the Administration's monopoly investigation-whose first subject is likely to be Big Steel-got going. What was more, Big Steel's young Chairman Edward...
...were uncompromising toward SEC. Roland Redmond, senior Carter, Ledyard partner, was a great & good friend of Richard Whitney, an Old Guardsman who at present languishes in Sing Sing.* Last week, Mr. Martin & partisans made the sweep complete. In brief routine announcement that went almost unnoticed by the press they announced that the Exchange had a new tribe of lawyers: Milbank, Tweed & Hope...