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...would reorganize the Ethiopian police, finances, jurisprudence, education and health services. Numerous Europeans, nominated by the League, would be needed to put through these reforms. Depending on whether the reforming Europeans were predominantly Italian?and the Committee of Five omitted the vital question of their nationality completely last week???this plan might offer something or nothing to Il Duce...
Shrewd Franklin Roosevelt never let his Bonus marchers get the Washington spotlight. Quick as querulous, down-at-heel veterans began shuffling into Washington, he began shipping them off to special relief camps in the South. In eleven such camps last week???seven in Florida, four in South Carolina?some 2,500 derelicts were being housed, fed, paid $30 to $45 per month...
...what Manhattan readers and his contemporaries think of his column. Outside New York, editors gladly pay anywhere from $2 to $200 a week for the privilege of printing "New York Day By Day." McIntyre at 51 receives an income which has been guessed as high as $2,000 a week???a guess which McNaught says is too low. He lives with his wife, the former Maybelle Hope Small, who embarrasses him before company by asking "How's my itty mans?" They occupy an expensive co-operative apartment at No. 290 Park Ave., in which McIntyre's favorite room...
...Vermonter by ten and you have the rugged individualism of a normal Frenchman. Such sweeping powers as are now held by President Roosevelt, the French people will grant to no President or Premier. To them last week it seemed a bold challenge when Premier Gaston Doumergue announced that this week???so help him?he will demand that the Constitution be changed to give a Premier of France roughly the powers of a Prime Minister of Great Britain...
...Naval parley breaks down ? and a break at London was perilously near this week??? then indeed the Peace of the World will be on the great team's gridiron. They would try to slow down the inevitable naval race, try to keep the Great Pacific War from becoming inevitable. Last week they were doing what they could to avert a break at London. There the U. S. is ably represented by trouble-shooting Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis. But dispatches indicated that per-haps only in Tokyo can the trouble he is after be shot...