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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appease Stalin? Generally accepted as Britain's No. i reason for abandoning Czecho-Slovakia last fall was the antipathy of the British ruling class toward the U.S.S.R., CzechoSlovakia's nearest friend. Even though they know that probably no combination in Europe could beat France, Britain and Russia, most British bigwigs hate and fear "the Bolshies." Significant it was, therefore, when Prime Minister Chamberlain and most of his Cabinet turned up last week at a Soviet Embassy reception given by Soviet Ambassador Ivan M. Maisky. Laborite James Ramsay MacDonald was the last British Prime Minister to tread that ground...
...though to convince Francisco Franco that Juan Negrin's regime was dead indeed, the junta recalled exiled General Jose Miaja to Madrid and named him "President." When Franco's armies last fought to the capital's outskirts, Jose Miaja well earned his title: "Savior of Madrid." This week he was back to save Madrileiños by other means than fighting...
...wangling a new mortgage out of Harry Chandler, sending Joe Connolly to Chicago and telling the .Consolidated directors what to do, the man whose tough job it is to hold together what is left of the Hearst empire, is a small, dry Manhattan lawyer named Clarence John Shearn. Though he stepped down from the bench 20 years ago, he still likes to be called Judge Shearn. When Hearst was a liberal crusader in the early 19003 Clarence Shearn was his lawyer. His last big job before he became Hearst's boss 21 months ago was as trial counsel...
Judge Shearn may have to sell something else. He would undoubtedly like to sell a few more papers (though he denies it). But with total daily circulation of the Hearstpapers down from 5,153,676 in 1936 to 4,368,086 last year (Sunday circulation was up slightly to 6,714,430), the retrenchment of Hearst is almost over and Trustee Shearn's main task for a good many years will be to pay bills, reduce bonded indebtedness and get Hearst's real estate out of hock. Whether he can do that depends on readers, advertisers and creditors...
...further acquiring trolley lines and elevateds, I. R. T. soon had a monopoly on Manhattan transit. Meanwhile Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. attained a similar monopoly across the river in Brooklyn, though it had no subway then. This cozy set-up has foliated through the years until today New York's rapid transit lines are a complex tangle with only three clear-cut divisions...