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...cause at all for many, many years. He began by teaming up with Peek, but ditched him-or got the President to ditch him -when George wouldn't kowtow to the Happy Hot Dogs who work behind the scenes. Mr. Wallace then surrendered all mental conclusions to Rex Tugwell, who knows as much about the farm problem as Haile Selassie knows about Oshkosh, Wisconsin...
...transatlantic speed (TIME, July 29).*The final masterpiece in a career of diligent eccentricity which includes never blowing his automobile horn, this gaudy prize periodically places Donor Hales in the public eye. Two months ago he trotted happily off to Genoa to present it to the Italian Liner Rex. Last week, accompanied by his purse-mouthed Committee-mate, Sir George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, the Duke of Sutherland, he arrived in Manhattan to give it to the Normandie...
Unfortunately, when peacock-proud Donor Hales first announced his Trophy, he offered it to the Rex, then holder of the transatlantic speed record, before he was ready to deliver it. Scarcely had the Italian Line accepted when the Normandie set a new record. To get around this development Harold Hales decreed that his trophy should be held by each consecutive winner for three months. The Italian Line displayed the $4,000 mass of encrusted silver in various places, finally brought it to Manhattan, put it in the window of their Fifth Avenue ticket office. Sweet to French hearts...
...shut off gossip about currency stabilization, Secretary Morgenthau picked Spain for his holiday, planned to keep out of France, booked his passage back on the Italian liner Rex. In his absence President Roosevelt warned all U. S. citizens to stay off Italian ships. Hence the obedient Mr. Morgenthau changed his itinerary, headed for Paris to take the Normandie's boat train. Only "accidentally" in the French capital, the Secretary of the Treasury nevertheless improved his time by twice chatting with Finance Minister Régnier. As a result, the Bourse hummed with rumors that the two men were talking...
...rejuvenated donkey kicked the G.O.P. white elephant back to the sunny fields of California, Republican leaders have been sitting in their overstuffed chairs taking pot shots at the administration. Their criticism has run the gamut from intelligent analysis of Roosevelt's budgetary policy to the point of suspecting that Rex Tugwell's pearly teeth are a fabrication...