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Early this year the tightest wad who was ever Governor of the Bank of France, fusty "abnormally honest" M. Clement Moret, gave way to that slightly looser wad, sandy-mustached M. Jean Tannery, amid uneasy rumors of "inflation" (TIME, Jan. 14). Since then France has changed cabinets and new Premier Pierre Laval is not tinged as was old Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin with any suspicion of wanting to perpetrate a New Deal âl'americaino. With Parliament adjourned and the new Cabinet embarked on a drastic program of balancing the budget and reducing the cost of life's necessities...
...late Ambassador to France, pulled a potent oar on Harvard's crew. After Harvard Law School he went into banking, dabbled in politics, went to war. His swank constituency has kept him steadily in Congress since 1923. Privately he moves in one of Washington's tightest little social sets, but among his fellow Congressmen he plays the good fellow with convincing affability. Ruddy, blue-eyed and handsome, he was once picked by famed Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka as the ideal type of "future American." ("What are they trying to do, make a fool of me?" roared Aristocrat Bacon when...
...fourth of all the world's sugar changes hands and there, last week, a frantic little group of sugar traders had been caught short. To cover contracts of 25,000 tons for December delivery, the shorts could not find a bagful more than 8,000 tons. The tightest sugar squeeze in 20 years of trading had sent Exchange managers into daily meetings lasting long after dark. Reluctantly they had suspended all further trading in December futures...
Meanwhile Secretary and Mrs. Hull were all but lost in Buenos Aires so far as correspondents were concerned, when Argentine rebels shot up several rural areas and President Justo, after placing the entire nation under a "state of siege" clapped on all news the tightest censorship in years. Private cables assured the State Department that its chief was safe, proceeding with Mrs. Hull to Chile where he will sail home up the west coast of South America (he sailed down the east coast). According to President Justo, who had Argentine news decidedly all his own way, the series of rebellions...
...velvets, velours, sat ins, soft brocades) create the new "mermaid silhouet" or "sheath line" as far as the knee or even midcalf, below which ruffles, pleats, godets and full circular hems encrusted like a birthday cake with bows and shirrings facilitate locomotion. In lieu of fullness some of the tightest skirts are slit to the ankle or a little higher. ¶ Colors either match the opulence of curves with magenta, plum, Tommy Atkins red, petunia, rich blues and deep greens or turn innocently romantic in swirls of Edwardian pinks and blues. Frills and furbelows on skirts pop out in ruffled...