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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...projects of James Delmage Ross, onetime Securities & Exchange Commissioner, longtime head of Seattle's municipal power system and now administrator of Bonneville Dam, is a standard yardstick for all Federal power projects. Last week Administrator Ross took his yardstick formula to President Roosevelt at Hyde Park for approval. The President approved for Bonneville only, but the idea seemed to be that if it worked at Bonneville the formula would be applied permanently to TVA, Boulder and Grand Coulee Dams and the "little TVAs" of the future. Said Mr. Ross: "We ought to be businesslike about this thing...
...British flagship in Shanghai waters should be sunk, or if General Telfer-Smollett or Admiral Yarnell should be killed, it might mean more to staggering China than the Nine-Power Conference which meets at Brussels next week. Japan last week refused to attend, and so did Germany. Japanese took the conduct of General Telfer-Smollett as proving this up to the hilt, claimed to have found in the captured Alamo quantities of "fresh food which could only have been smuggled in from the British." Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa this week was so boiling mad on his flagship at Shanghai that...
...land of the free and equal, where every mother's son had a chance to become a millionaire or President, sailed from France 29 years ago one Charles Eugene Bedaux. Although slight in stature and of no great muscle, this ambitious little Frenchman promptly took the highest paid job he could qualify for in Manhattan as an unskilled laborer, that of a "sand hog" digging skyscraper and subway foundations under heavy air pressure which gives a workman who emerges too quickly cramps and pains called "the bends." Using his brain as well as his shovel, Sand Hog Bedaux...
...aristocratic original founders of the Croix de Feu, Duke Joseph Pozzo di Borgo, called M. Tardieu to bear witness that the Duke had spoken truly in making public accusations against Colonel de La Rocque which the colonel described in a speech as "maliciously false." The Duke took this charge as occasion to sue for slander, and the Lyon court was expected to give judgment next week...
...last Tardieu Cabinet fell (TIME, May 16, 1932), Colonel de La Rocque, who had never liked Tardieu I'Americain although willing to take banknotes where he could find them, referred publicly to the fallen Premier as a "political corpse." For this M. Tardieu in the witness box took ample revenge last week, although Colonel de La Rocque was there to shout in court: "This is not true! Tardieu lies...