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After the Mona Lisa vanished in 1911, a new confidence game flourished for a while: selling the "genuine" Mona Lisa to rich suckers who were unable to squawk when they found themselves stuck with copies instead of stolen goods. French police last week expected the same thing to happen with L'Indifférent, put a close watch on dubious picture dealers, airports and trains. The Mona Lisa was gone for two years before they found her in the thief's home in Florence...
Baptists throughout the world, apprised of the plight of their Rumanian coreligionists, raised a mighty squawk. Dr. James Henry Rushbrooke, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, went to Bucharest to see King Carol. When the King visited London last November, British Baptists and other Protestants sat on his doorstep until they were permitted to tell their story to the Rumanian Foreign Minister. Last February, Baptists devoted a "Day of Prayer" throughout the world to the Rumanian situation. Patriarch Cristea, fairly promptly, died (TIME, March...
...Loudest squawk came from Examiner Arnold, who before his ouster had been offered a $5,000 Veterans' Administration job in exchange for his $7,000 FCC post. When he refused, he said, Chairman McNinch told him that "in these days that's a pretty good salary for a Republican...
...present U. S. surplus. To dump only 26,000,000 bu. abroad in 1934, the U. S. spent $6,500,000. However ingeniously conceived, a similar program now would not only add a neat expense item to AAA's bulging budget but would almost certainly bring a squawk from Secretary of State Hull, champion of reciprocal trade treaties. In addition, subsidized U. S. wheat would have to compete in the world market against wheat subsidized this year by Canada, Poland and Rumania -with other overproducers expected to follow suit...
...this harsh squawk against the girls who have been hooking customers into box offices for years, the producers themselves for the most part maintained a shocked silence. But week before, Samuel (Quality, not Quantity) Goldwyn. had hit the nail on the head. "It used to be that . . . one picture of a double feature would be bad," he pounded. "Now you got to expect both of them will be terrible. . . The American picture industry . . . better do something, and do it soon...