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...their dollar as stable as our own currency. . . . If the [NRA] experiment fails it means another period of depression in the United States and that cannot occur without hav ing its effect on us." Same night in London the Roosevelt experiment was sardonically described by Sir Josiah Stamp, rotund Board Chairman of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, a Director of the Bank of England and a leading Empire economist often consulted by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. "They began by rattling President Roosevelt's new powers like a bag of tools," smiled Sir Josiah. "They hoped he might never...
Washington, stormed in upon the Committee and swore that he could produce Mr. Hopson at a hat's drop. Mr. Hopson had merely gone to Bowling Green, Ky. in August, had caught intestinal influenza, had then gone to Chicago "to be with his sister." Last week Mr. Hopson, rotund and smiling, appeared before the Senators, blithely announcing that he had brought a "truckload" of papers for examination. Mr. Pecora insisted that the truckload be carted back to Manhattan to be examined in Mr. Hopson's offices...
...seems likely, the Soviet Union is recognized by the United States within the year, the event may prove of considerable significance in our Asiatic relations, particularly with that fanatically aggressive nation, Japan. For should our trade with Russia expand (and that is the plum held out by the rotund M. Litvinov), a large part of it might very well be handled from Seattle and ports along that coast to Vladivostok, the outpost city of the Union in lower Siberia. This would undoubtedly be very satisfactory but for one important item: Tokio has its gourmandish eyes strongly focused on Vladivostok...
...hospitable Brazilians rushed to completion two triumphal arches for their Argentine guest, a big arch 95 ft. high on which colored lights played all night and a cosy little arch. Short, rotund President Getulio Dornellas Vargas of Brazil has recovered from the motor accident in which he broke both legs last spring (TIME, May 8); he was up in the Graf Zeppelin last week circling Northern Brazil, flew back to Rio just in time to send out several battleships and 60 Brazilian naval planes to greet President Justo in whose further honor Brazil printed commemorative postage stamps...
...possibility had disappeared. Miss Britain III, almost a mile behind, was chugging along smoothly but a little pathetically, at 66 m.p.h. to Miss America's easy 88. Wood throttled his boat down to 85 for the next lap, 82 for the third, a bare 80 for the fourth. Rotund, red-haired Hubert Scott-Paine and his mechanic. Gordon Thomas, crouching in Miss Britain's small streamlined cowl, got their motors warmer as the race went on, reached a maximum of almost 81 m.p.h. on the third lap. Miss America X was about two miles ahead at the finish...