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Died. Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, His Holiness Pope Pius XI, 81, 261st Pope, Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Pri mate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, absolute sovereign of Vatican City, spiritual sovereign of 331,500,000 Roman Catholics; of cardiac asthma and kidney disturbances; in Vatican City...
Since the appointment was obviously temporary, observers began speculating. Then they remembered. On August 9, Ohio's Governor Martin Luther Davey will run for renomination in the Democratic pri-mary against former Lieutenant Governor Charles Sawyer. If Governor Davey is defeated, the board of trustees, four of whose seven members he appointed, at a scheduled meeting on August 17 might pluck him the job as Ohio State's president...
...industries, such as agriculture, that operate at a high level of capacity even when business activity is at low levels, the restoration of profits must come pri marily through higher prices. . . . Recently wholesale prices have declined markedly, yet that decline has been reflected in the cost of living only to a very slight degree. . . . It is clear that in the present situation a moderate rise in the general price level is desirable, and that this rise need not and should not extend to all prices...
Comptroller General? If Pat Harrison goes down to defeat in Mississippi's pri-mary this summer, it will not be a sentence of exile from his beloved Washington. A level-headed party regular whose lack of enthusiasm for some New Deal experiments has not abated his zeal helping to bring them into being, he has served his President with a loyalty which cannot well go unrewarded. The Comptroller Generalship, which John R. McCarl will vacate July 1, is believed by many to be his for the asking. In that $15,000-per-year job he would be sure...
...Delegation tall, breezy Texas ranching tycoon Ralph W. Morrison. Not much concerned with Conference backstairs intrigue (see p. 15), Mr. Morrison sat through more Conference sessions than any other U. S. Delegate, puffed a fat cigar in pleasant ignorance that all the little signs reading "Prière de ne pas fiimcr" meant "Please do not smoke...