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...Italy against Britain and France, "Fascism against Democracy." Il Duce at this time rebuffed the overture, urged instead a four-power agreement "for peace." Edouard Daladier, who was then Premier of France (as he is today), saw the opportunity and rushed to confer at Geneva with Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. The snowy-haired Scot next dashed to Rome, some what as Neville Chamberlain was to dash to Berchtesgaden and to Godesberg five years later, and the idea for a Four-Power Pact was agreed upon...
...finance a Foundation for the Advancement of Social Sciences at the University of Denver, he picked Ben Cherrington from a YMCA student job to direct it. Director Cherrington began by asking 150 serious thinkers, including Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Jan Smuts, Harvard Law Dean Roscoe Pound, Ramsay MacDonald, Herbert Hoover: "What would you do?" Consensus was to tackle international problems, and Dr. Cherrington did, with endless lectures, seminars, model League of Nations assemblies, dinners and luncheons which after twelve years make visiting foreigners wonder why landlocked Denver is so world-minded. A few Denver intransigeants call Director Cherrington...
With a fifth campaign coming to decision in November, FCC Chairman Frank Ramsay McNinch last week announced that he would lay before his Commission the question of promulgating rules for distributing time to political candidates. A formal petition for campaign regulations recently came from station WTAR (Norfolk, Va.). WTAR was tired of having to take on itself the politically dangerous (as well as costly) responsibility of allotting politicians the use of its station...
...with no evidence against his fellow Commissioners. He did repeat the names of a half-dozen well-known lobbyists. Nevertheless, the Rules Committee, led by its hard-boiled chairman, Tammanyite John Joseph O'Connor, voted for an investigation. In doing so they overrode protests by FCC Chairman Frank Ramsay McNinch, who well knew that a comprehensive investigation would involve not only broadcasters but also his Commission. He is already conducting a monopoly investigation...
...specially created post of Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Secretary. Mr. Chamberlain is determined to make his own appointments to these permanent, advisory posts. Sartorially correct, 61-year-old Colonel Sir Maurice, dubbed "Sir Maurice the Immaculate." was far closer to previous Prime Ministers David Lloyd George, James Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin than he was to Mr. Chamberlain. From his three influential seats. Sir Maurice has of late been reported as opposing certain phases of the Government's rearmament program...