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With the exception of Russia, the two strongest air fleets in Europe are those of France, with 3,600 effective planes and Italy with 2,300. Factories in both countries are working 24 hours a day; France, to finish a three-year building program within the year; Italy, to end her six-year plan in half time. Together the French and Italian air fleets would make the greatest air armada the world has ever seen, capable, so the sponsors of the plan hope, of bombing any nation into good behavior...
...where he knew Franklin D. Roosevelt. Going to New Mexico for his health, Cutting became a follower of Theodore Roosevelt, was State Progressive Committee Chairman from 1914 to 1916. Appointed Senator by New Mexico's Governor Richard C. Dillon in 1927, he was elected for a six-year term the following year. Friends called him "the most cultured man in the Senate...
...other problems. Last month Mexico paid the first $500,000 of an agreed $7,000,000 to settle U. S. claims for life and property destroyed in the chaotic years 1910-20. Old Ambassador Josephus Daniels has solidly entrenched himself with Mexican officials by his seeming sympathy with their Six-Year Plan. Cautious and tentative have been Mexican moves against foreign capital (TIME, Feb. 25). Remembering the shady methods employed by some U. S. citizens in acquiring Mexican lands, the State Department is in no hurry to make trouble about the recent occupation by Mexicans...
...Washington, was given an office in the Senate Office Building, put four clerks on the Government payroll, drew $1,600 pay for two months' service. Last week as he vacated his office so that his friend and Harvard classmate, Edward Raymond Burke, could move in for a full six-year term as Senator from Nebraska, Richard Charles Hunter said mournfully: "I was a Senator, though, even if I wasn't sworn in. The sergeant-at-arms showed me my seat early in December. It had my name on it. I did a lot of work while...
Intensely practical in the most important respect, Mexico's Six-Year Plan includes this pledge: "Place at the Army's disposal such training, such preparation, such necessary armaments for it to warrant, in case of necessity, those exalted concepts and that profound faith which our country has vested in our armed institution...