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Secretary of Labor. Frances Perkins (Wilson), 50, of Manhattan got this portfolio without organized Labor's backing because President Roosevelt considers her the smartest woman in public life today. No honorary appointee, she qualifies as the result of long, patient years in social and industrial welfare work...
Always busy is the brain of Dr. Eduard Benes, "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia and recently the League's successful arbiter between Persia and Great Britain in their squabble over oil (TIME, Feb. 13). Last week Dr. Benes sprang something new: the abrupt and solid interlocking of three small European states into what may soon be considered a Great Power. Angry German editors even gave it a name: "RUMANOJUGO-SVAKIA...
...youngest child in a family is usually the smartest, and the children of elderly parents are usually smarter than other neighborhood children, decided Dr. Richard Leos Jenkins, Chicago juvenile researcher after looking over records of 7,000 Sioux City, Iowa children. (Dr. Minnie L. Steckel gathered the records.) Havelock Ellis thinks that late generating parents do their offspring good. Dr. Jenkins, however, reasons that more money and experience in bringing up children enable such parents to take better care of late comers...
...tough Reza Shah Pahlevi's morale was not shaken. He ignored Britain's ultimatum, let Dec. 15 pass, sent his Minister of Justice speeding to Geneva where, most fortunately, the League Council told off famed Dr. Eduard Benes, perennial Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia and "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," to try to calm the Persians and the British...
...foregoing Cabinet guess and found it good. To each it had come in a mimeographed letter from Washington, enclosed in a sealed envelope with a 3? stamp. They all were paying $18 per year to receive this and similar information every week. It was the Kiplinger Washington Letter, smartest and most alert of three similar services conducted at the Capital...