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...Roosevelt camp received another set-back last week when the 25 potent Scripps-Howard papers throughout the land frontpaged an editorial entitled "Give Us Alfred E. Smith." Excerpts: "Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt possess in common one dominating trait. Faced in a pinch with political consequences, they yield. Between the two it is a toss up. . . The nomination of Roosevelt is possible but not certain. Between Roosevelt and the White House there now stands a man endowed in the very highest degree with those qualities which both Hoover and Roosevelt lack and which the country so sorely needs...
First important set-back of the pilgrimage occurred when the veterans stepped off the Free Bridge in East St. Louis, Ill., and started to climb on an eastbound Baltimore & Ohio freight train. B. & O. officials, apprehensive lest the men wreck the train or kill themselves, ordered the train not to leave the yards. Then the marchers tried strategy. They deployed to Caseyville, eight miles away, waited until a string of 30 cars started to climb a steep grade there. Soaped rails and a cut air hose stalled the train, of which the marchers took informal possession. Ice melted from valuable...
...Palestine has its own Hebrew university, founded in 1925. The Jewish population of Palestine runs its own religious affairs. But it is a minority (16.9%) without political power, save for the advisory powers conferred on the Jewish Agency by the mandate, allotted to Great Britain ten years ago. Chief set-back of the decade: the British Government's policy, published in Lord Passfield's White Paper (TIME, Nov. 3, 1930 et seq.) which proposed restriction of Jewish immigration and land purchase. No Zionist oration is complete without references?in lamentation or scorn?to the White Paper...
...slowing up of the general tempo in Soviet Russia is evident at the present time since the set-back in the capitalistic world has removed the prime cause for feverish development and expansion," said Bruce Hopper, Assistant Professor of Government, and widely known interpreter of Russian political and economic theory, in an interview yesterday. "A possible explanation might be that the Bolsheviks, having stolen three years from history' by starting the Five Year Plan before the depression, now feel sufficiently strong to give themselves a taste of the better things of life...
Biggest projected mergers among Protestants are those of the Episcopal, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches, debated last year but as yet far from actu- ality. Also projected is the union of the five most important Presbyterian and Reformed groups, but this received a set-back last month when the Dutch Reformed and Southern Presbyterian Churches announced they would hear no more...