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...January Germany's helium ship Dessau, with 486 steel cylinders aboard, each accommodating 5,600 cu. ft. of highly compressed gas, docked at Houston, Tex., ready to take back to Germany the first installment. Ambassador Wilson was reminded that Germany had gone to "considerable expense" to revamp the LZ-130 from hydrogen to helium. Last week it became known in Washington that President Roosevelt had taken the question under personal consideration after the Departments of State and the Interior had split...
Before a manuscript is accepted by the Post, all its editors (except the second-class manuscript reader) read it and write comments on the envelope it comes in- "O. K.," "Sure," "You're crazy," "Don't want it," "Revamp the lead." The final veto or acceptance is Editor Stout's. Because of office interruptions, he does most of his copyreading at home at night, consequently works almost twice the hours of anyone else on the staff. He still travels. Only a few weeks ago he got back from seeing how things were in Texas...
Indications were that neither Mussolini nor Hitler wanted to sign anything like a military alliance between Italy and Germany, but that both were eager to revive the Four-Power Pact of Britain, Italy, France and Germany (TIME, June 19, 1933 et ante) and revamp it into a Five-Power Pact by adding Poland. In this scheme for organizing a unity of states in Europe proper without the Soviet Union, the Dictators were reputed in London to have last week the goodwill of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, could count on brilliant Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff to make plenty more...
...primaries last week was one close to the heart of Democratic Governor George H. Earle. Pennsylvania's 62-year-old constitution may be amended only once in five years. Impatient to let his citizens share in "the more abundant life of the Roosevelt New Deal," Governor Earle proposed to revamp the whole document at one clip. He wanted to up the State's borrowing power, shift taxes from real estate to incomes, lop off or consolidate antique political offices and divisions, lay the ground for social security legislation. First step was to get Pennsylvanians to say Yes to a Constitutional...
...accused Baldwin of "misleading the investing public," or to a Baldwin stockholder named George Stephenson who accused the company's officers of unloading Baldwin stock on the public in 1929?a charge which President Houston hotly denied. What was surprising about the Baldwin reorganization was that a plan to revamp the company was approved almost at once by all the protective committees. It provides for conversion into new securities of all outstanding issues except first mortgage bonds which would remain in the hands of the public. Maximum outlay for fixed charges would be $133,800 a year instead...