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...Comptroller McCarl would uphold the letter of the law and award Dealer Sabine his contract regardless of NRA. But while Tsar McCarl cogitated, Henry Ford backed down. Mr. Ford would not sign the automobile code because he mortally hates & fears collective bargaining, one of the Blue Eagle's proudest plumes. Fortnight ago he broke a long silence to rebuke NRAdministrator Johnson for "assuming the airs of a dictator." Last week he did not actually sign the automobile code. He did not even give out a personal statement. But by letter and through spokesmen he let it be known that...
...Proudest man in Australia last week was tousle-haired Premier Joseph Aloysiu Lyons. When he took office 22 month? ago Australia's finances were an Empire scandal. Commonwealth bonds were on the verge of interest default. Joe Lyons, who had only recently emerged from the political wilds of Tasmania, formed a Cabinet and pulled in his belt. Things looked better last year, and last week he had real news. Reading his budget speech before the House of Representatives, he announced that the Commonwealth had, instead of an estimated deficit of ?1,302,000, a surplus...
...furiously outraged by the Revolt of the Sergeants. They knew they could never return to their commands without loss of face. When Top Sergeant Batista called back "officers whose records were not stained by participation in the misdeeds of the Machado regime," 300 of the Cuban Army's proudest officers boiled over. Figuring it was their last chance to tell Batista what they thought of him, they went in a body to see him, led by Col. Horacio Ferrer who had been President de Cespedes' Secretary of War. Sergeant Fulgencio Batista left that meeting in a towering rage...
Three years ago small, tight-lipped Senator Morris Sheppard, whose proudest boast is that he helped write the 18th Amendment, boasted proudly: "There's as much chance of repealing the 18th Amendment as there is for a humming bird to fly to Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail." Last week humming bird and Washington Monument were well on their way to Mars when Senator Sheppard's own mammoth Texas became the 23rd consecutive State to plump for Repeal. In a light vote, due to public apathy and a $1.75 poll tax, the 21st Amendment...
...Proudest boast of MGM was that Greta Garbo had returned to Hollywood after all, signed a new contract, and was ready to start her next picture (Queen Christina). Also signed up for one prizefight picture was Heavyweight Challenger Max Baer. Still addicted to all-star casts, MGM was ready to release Dinner at Eight which contains almost every performer on the lot except John Barrymore's macaw. RKO promised Sinclair Lewis' Ann Viewers. It would also tackle Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham's long-neglected but deeply moving story of a cripple. Fox announced it had bought...