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Aside from Spain's civil war, the most lively political project in Europe is the Fascist "axis" swiftly being forged by Dictators Mussolini and Hitler. The latter's beefy No. 2 man. Colonel General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, has been down to Italy twice in four months to discuss it. Last month Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg went down to Venice from Vienna to find out just where Austria stood in the new picture (TIME, May 3). Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, has been to Berlin for a courtesy call. Last week...
...Pittsburgh last week Andrew William Mellon—with the help of three Nobel Prize winners, 200 chemists, physicists and engineers most of whom hope to become factory executives, and some 1,500 bystanders-dedicated a project which he conceived when he tried to improve his French 28 years ago. His French, he told the throng last week, "is still what it was originally." But his conception has become a huge, new, nine-story, splendidly equipped factory for research...
...politics. President Roosevelt has already given his blessing to a scheme for building a $20,000,000 motor highway through British Columbia and the Yukon to Alaska. With the fusion of British Columbia and the Yukon there is a better chance that the road will get under way. This project, endorsed by many a tourist organization and chamber of commerce, is disliked by those who think that such a road might be used for military purposes in the event of war between the U. S. and a Far Eastern power...
Reminded of the large sums which U. S. investment trusts spend annually in their research departments, Author Reis believes non-profit organizations can operate more cheaply; colleges and universities will help a non-profit project; Investors' Research would not worry about day to day market fluctuations, merely report whether securities were safe investments. Analogous to Investors' Research is the 64-year-old British Corporation of Foreign Bondholders. "But that's a little organization for big investors," says Author Reis. "What we need is a big organization for little investors...
Organizing the Harvard chapter will be in the hands of the Council of Government Concentrators. At their next meeting, Stern will bring up the project for discussion