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Italy's Dictator, challenging England and France to show themselves Fascism's friends, described the Rome-Berlin accord negotiated fortnight ago by his son-in-law Count Ciano (TIME, Nov. 2) as "an axis around which all European States animated by a desire for Peace may collaborate on troubles. ... It is no wonder if we today raise the banner of anti-Bolshevism!" After uttering such warlike bombast, cautious Benito Mussolini always leaves open a diplomatic avenue running in the opposite direction. "Blackshirts!" he roared. "Your marching orders are: . . . Peace with all, with those near and afar! ARMED PEACE...
...house to break radio tubes because Senator Trowbridge is broadcasting news of Corpo atrocities from Canada. In the novel, Doremus Jessup was a tough-fibred fighter for the Liberal cause. In the play, he is a pitiable dodderer who fails to realize what is happening until his son-in-law is murdered. It is his spinster friend, Lorinda Pike, who spots the Corpo invasion from afar. Jessup's love affair with her is played down to the point where it might pass as platonic. Much more faithful to the original are the characters of Effingham Swan, hairy-handed...
...winter. But there was neither sleep nor astonishment in the eyes of election officials at Hyde Park, N. Y. at 11 a. m. when they handed out ballot No. 312 et seq. to Franklin D. Roosevelt & family. In succession the President, his mother, his wife, his daughter, his son-in-law disappeared into the voting machines and quickly did their duty. Franklin Jr., 21 in August, slipped hastily around the corner to Hyde Park High School to take a literacy test. No one had been able to find his Groton School diploma, but it did not matter. He passed...
...Founder Goldman took his son-in-law, Samuel Sachs, into the business, and by the century's turn Goldman, Sachs & Co. was the largest commercial paper house in the land. It still is. The commercial paper business was the chief reason for the firm's emergence as the leading industrial banking house of pre-Depression days. As it is done now the commercial paper business consists of buying promissory notes direct from the borrower instead of secondhand. For corporations needing money for short periods, commercial paper is often cheaper than bank loans. This type of business keeps Goldman...
...debts, it is written in an even more sombre key than The Furys, pictures events more nerve-racking, hysterical, violent. Mrs. Fury has borrowed in order to keep Peter at college, borrowed more to pay interest, pledged her furniture, the earnings of her family, the possessions of her son-in-law, the compensation paid for her son's injury. At the day of reckoning Peter returns after a year at sea, is astonished when the ugly, middle-aged moneylender falls in love with him. Overwhelmed by her passion, Mrs. Ragner relaxes the screws on the Furys, until Peter reveals...