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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost, but not quite, everyone in Washington was all steamed up and happy about the historic visit. Senator Borah suggested that someone should remind King George about Britain's $85.000,000 War debt payment which she is defaulting as usual this month. California's Senator Downey said he would be too busy with "American business" to join his colleagues in receiving Their Majesties in the Capitol rotunda. (The spot picked for this ceremony was under a portrait of Pocahontas, facing pictures of the surrenders of Cornwallis and Burgoyne, the signing of the Declaration of Independence.) Bush-bearded Representative...
...west coast are first carried by a northward current tc Baffin Bay, then south in the Labrador current to the Newfoundland Banks. Some are wrecked on the coast, others drift into the Strait of Belle Isle; some float south to the Gulf Stream. This year, more bergs than usual were expected, because of an open winter in Baffin Bay and Labrador, and because the cold water of the Labrador current was reaching farther south than usual...
Stronger-than-usual British and French protests were lodged at Tokyo's Foreign Office. Embarrassed more than angered were the Germans, associates of Japan in the anti-Comintern Pact, but they also protested. While by week's end the Japanese had given no official answer, her Navy spokesman at Shanghai announced that Japan would search for "military supplies" any ship operating within 200 miles of the Chinese coast. The spokesman added: "It is not a question of rights, but of what the Japanese Naval authorities demand...
Last week, Berle made another stab at ideological control of Senator O'Mahoney's Monopoly Committee. He appeared at its investment bank hearings to tell how to fix up the capital market. Erudite, as usual, he backed up his remarks by allusions to economic bigwigs like England's John Maynard Keynes, Brookings Institution's Harold Glenn Moulton. His program took over three much-hashed New Deal recovery inducers, pronounced them not-radical, stamped them with the Berle trademark...
RENO RENDEZVOUS - Leslie Ford - Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Two daring and brutal murders are cleared up by Colonel Primrose and misogynist Sergeant Buck. Another of Miss Ford's first-person stories, with her usual good plot and dialogue...