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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich, scholarly Theodore Francis Green, lawyer and banker, close friend of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. Mr. Green was 30 years in politics before being elected governor four years ago. Horse-faced, stoop-shouldered and 69, he will take to the U. S. Senate an expert knowledge of Roman law which he acquired as a youth in the Universities of Bonn and Berlin...
...money the college received during the fiscal year. Athletic expenses, however, including a $7,000 salary plus 10% of the gate for Coach Slip Madigan, somehow mounted to $139,862. Skeptical, the bondholders' committee demanded the right to examine all the college accounts, installed a Roman Catholic accountant named James Everett Butler as comptroller. In February the college treasurer, Brother Josephus, informed Comptroller Butler that supervision of athletic accounts was not included in the agreement. When the Brothers persistently refused to discuss their football business, the committee last week asked bondholders permission to have the Central Bank of Oakland...
...Edda's friends go to him when they want a traffic ticket torn up. At 6:30 p.m. each day Foreign Minister Count Ciano stands before Dictator Mussolini for high-pressure contact on world affairs, then goes directly home to dinner or to one of the dazzling Roman social functions Edda likes. As soon as Italy and Germany began getting together on the question of helping the Spanish Whites (TIME, Aug. 24), a trip to Berlin loomed and young Count Ciano buckled down to study German furiously. To him languages come easily and Italy's Foreign Minister...
...Italy's great masters of diplomacy, Daniele Vare, the Minister to China and an eminent student of its lore. During this time Admiral Ciano, with the astuteness of an old campaigner, was on watch in Rome and when he found that Premier Mussolini was about to solve the "Roman Question" by making a treaty with Pope Pius XI, got Son Galeazzo recalled from China just in time to squeeze him into the Italian Embassy to the Holy See as First Secretary...
Although most U. S. churchmen have long agreed that in decency's name the U. S. cinema should be regulated, some liberals have squirmed because the strict regulation which now exists was devised by Roman Catholics, is now in the Catholic hands of Motion Picture Production Code Administrator Joseph I. ("Joe") Breen. Last week was announced a step, obviously the work of astute Will H. Hays, Presbyterian Elder, which may make U. S. Protestants feel better about the part their churches play in purifying the nation's pictures. The most potent executive...