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Well-informed friends guessed that Jesse Jones would keep his place as official U. S. moneylender, and take the Cabinet post too. Early this week word sprang from the White House that the President would ask for a Congressional joint resolution to permit the exceptional Mr. Jones to hold two Federal jobs. But his salary would not exceed the $15,000 a year a Cabinet member gets. Mr. Jones is many times a millionaire. His present wage as Loan Administrator...
...judge the practical force of Willkie sentiment stirring in the South. But there were seeds of a revolt against entrenched politics. To Wendell Willkie went hundreds of telegrams from Southern Democrats (see p. 14). In Richmond, Charleston, Atlanta, in Texas, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Willkie clubs sprang up overnight, formed by lifelong Democrats to back a Republican candidate...
...after thunder last week came rain. Promptly at 9:30, on the morning after Wang announced his order, terrorists sprang out of a side street opening into Hankow Road and hurled four hand grenades at Shun Pao's office. Eight Chinese were wounded...
Unity. For three days the word "Communism" was taboo on the convention floor, was whispered only in corridors and 'caucuses. On the fourth day it exploded on the floor after a Denver "regular" presented a resolution cautiously condemning subversive movements, "Trojan horses or fifth columns." Up sprang a Seattle insurgent to offer an amendment: "That Communism, Naziism and Fascism are not . . . indicative of [the Guild's] beliefs . . . and that this organization will not tolerate any attempt by these subversive elements to ... control [Guild] policies...
Suddenly last week peace stories sprang up everywhere. In Washington there was talk of a negotiated peace by President Roosevelt, in New York a report that Germany was offering Great Britain peace with 95% of the Empire left intact. Most credible story was broadcast by Radio Commentator Wythe Williams, who seems to have excellent Nazi contacts. Crediting "a channel that has never failed me," Commentator Williams announced: "Sir Samuel Hoare, Ambassador of Great Britain to Spain, had a conference with General Franco . . . and asked the General whether in his opinion a basis could be found on which to initiate preliminary...