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...universally called by statesmen and financiers last week a "nigger trick." Anything but smart was this dusky African potentate's pathetic belief that President Roosevelt would defend Ethiopia against Italy as a result of the midnight signing of the Rickett concession. Equally footless was his loss of temper in accusing Secretary Hull of "gross misjudgment." This petulant error Chargé d'Affaires Engert erased by denying the assertions of the Emperor's own entourage that he expressed himself in violent terms. According to Diplomat Engert the Emperor merely voiced "regret" that Standard Oil is not to lead the U. S. Marines...
Last week in Nation's Business Mr. Hutton again demonstrated his feeling for the temper of the times. Grasping an editorial suggestion of that monthly, the General Foods board chairman contributed an article titled "We Have Humanized Our Figures.'' Said he: "I see no reason why the financial statement or balance sheet of every corporation, big or little, cannot be broken down in terms of men & women...
...publishing springboard of the late Adolph Ochs, now published by Ochs' Nephew Julius Ochs Adler. Last week Nephew Adler plucked Julian Harris, 61, from the Constitution, made him executive editor of the Chattanooga Times, a lively paper in a lively newspaper country. In subordinate jobs Harris' bitter temper and sarcasm have often hurt him but on the Chattanooga Times Harris was told that he would be Boss...
Last week Josephine Johnson presented more portraits in her gallery of overemotional farmers in a book of short stories, written in the cadenced prose of her first novel. Long descriptions of rural sights and smells alternate with obscure adolescent fits of temper and weeping. Most of Josephine Johnson's farm tales are no more than well-written, undergraduate, descriptive essays, but in the best of them the real torments of hard times and hunger seem to struggle to escape the strait jacket of her fluent and mannered prose. Among the 22 stories in Winter Orchard...
Bedeviled by a blight of interdictions and animadversions against AAA by processors, judges and Senators, nervous AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis has kept his tongue & temper fairly well under control. Last week his attention was called to the following advertisement in the Joplin, Mo. Globe...