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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hospital the Senator was taken straight to the operating room. On examining his wound physicians found that the bullet had twice pierced his colon, made its way out through his back. On the operating table, the intestinal punctures were sewed up. Then Huey Long was put to bed and a mass vigil began: by his wife, daughter, two boys and three hastily reconciled brothers at the bedside; by his miscellaneous henchmen in the corridor outside; by a brigade of newshawks downstairs; by a truculent detachment of State troopers and bodyguards around the building who were ordered to shoot photographers...
...Spearman, emeritus professor of Psychology at University of London, has made his name well-known as a specialist in what he calls "psycho-mathematics." A Fellow of the Royal Society, onetime (1923-26) president of the British Psychological Society, he was, according to his Who's Who entry, "twice thanked by the British Admiralty for psychological services...
...when his brother Charles withdrew financial support from the magazine in 1928, Editor Lanier left. There followed a long, vague tinkering with Golden Book's editorial policy, a steady decline in its subscribers. The magazine changed editors four times, page size twice. Its editorial formula wavered to include radical political speeches, varying proportions of contemporary stories and, of late, heavily Rabelaisian fiction. Advertising management was equally unsteady, equally botched. By 1935 these faults had cut the subscriptions...
Died. Henri Barbusse, 62, novelist, Pacifist, Communist; of pneumonia; in Moscow, where he attended sessions of the Seventh World Communist Party Congress. Son of a French atheist and an Englishwoman, Barbusse enlisted in the War as a private, was invalided out three times, twice cited for bravery. His war book, Le Feu, won the Prix Goncourt in 1917 despite militarists who attacked its "defeatism...
...holding company receives a return on its investment in a subsidiary, the dividend must first be authorized by the Commission. Finally, as all the world knows, SEC must order holding companies to limit themselves to "a single integrated system" (with certain exceptions), must abolish all holding companies more than twice removed from their operating subsidiaries. Such changes, however, cannot come before Jan. 1, 1938, may even be postponed...