Word: publication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crony Boyles is more active. The Governor's official legal aide and unofficial Pooh-Bah, he not only dispenses legal advice, but sometimes signs State papers in the Dickinson name. Himself and Colleague Moyer he modestly characterizes as "just a couple of fellows hanging on to the public tit." Other Dickinson indispensables include: smooth, young Secretary Leslie Butler-who siphons callers so carefully into his master's office that the Detroit Citizens' League once complained: "Honest citizens can't get in" -and Personal Secretary Margaret Shaw, whom, the Governor says, God sent him. ("I know there...
Last week, the Pope made his first public declaration concerning his peace efforts: "Toward the beginning of last month we thought it timely, after mature deliberation, to make known to some statesmen of the great European nations the anxiety the situation was causing us at that moment. . . . We received assurances of good will and of determination to maintain peace...
...view of the difficulties under which rescue operations had to be conducted, Mr. Chamberlain had no criticisms to make against the Royal Navy. But he promised a public investigation...
...horror of the Squalus' loss of the men in her flooded aft was mitigated by the rescue of the 33 survivors. There was no grain of satisfaction for the British public in the Thetis disaster, worst in submarine history. There were just two cold epitaphs. "Chlorine gas fumes," said a British medical authority, "in a confined space like the interior of a submerged submarine, would cause early asphyxiation, immediately preceded by loss of consciousness." And over the spot in the Irish Sea where the submarine rested, there floated a new green buoy on whose side was freshly painted...
Solomon Guggenheim has always been interested in education. He was, for example, treasurer of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York for many years and is still a patron of the Brightside Day Nursery. These activities are pie, however, to the educational job Solomon Guggenheim undertook two years ago at the age of 76. "I desire to encourage the development of the esthetic sense of our people," said old Mr. Guggenheim, and plunked down something like $3,000,000 to endow a foundation for "nonobjective" art (TIME, July...