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...were well aware of what was going on. The Press had properly foreseen it as a coming test of the New Deal. Rhode Island's Senators, Democrat Peter Gerry and Republican Jesse Metcalf, had both suspended operations in Washington to go home and campaign. Postmaster General Farley, vacationing westward, had as usual wired the chief Democratic nominee ''best wishes" on a happy term in Washington. And even Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who supposedly never plays politics, telegraphed support of the Democrats' chief issue-bond issues...
Meantime branches of Travelers Bank in Nice, London and other European cities had closed their doors, and agitated French magistrates, mindful of I'affaire Stavisky, issued a shower of warrants for almost anyone named Neidecker. But the Neidecker exodus was complete for already steaming westward was another ship bearing Bankster Neidecker's wife, his two children, his mother, his two authentic brothers and one of his automobiles...
Normandie came clipping into Havre from her first voyage to Manhattan hav-ing broken once again last week the galaxy of records she first broke fortnight before (TIME, June 10). She averaged 29.68 knots for the westward transatlantic course, then 30.31 knots for the run home. Best previous average was Rex's 28.92 knots on the longer South Atlantic route. Last week Normandie's time from Ambrose Lightship to Bishop's Rock was 4 days, 3 hours, 28 minutes, thus decisively disposing of Bremen's 4 day-16 hour-15 minute record (Ambrose Lightship to Cherbourg...
...Motion Picture Research Council bestirred itself again and 1) elected Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, long, lean, pouch-eyed President of Stanford University and one-time (1929-33) Secretary of the Interior, president to replace Mrs. Belmont who resigned last June; 2) announced that it would move its main offices westward to San Francisco in order to be near (i.e. 350 mi.) the centre of cinema production. Said an ungrammatical Council bulletin...
When news of the failure flashed westward, both the Kansas City and St. Louis grain exchanges closed down. Wheat sank on the Winnipeg and Minneapolis exchanges, only major grain markets open in all of North America. Grain brokers from coast to coast held their breath in anticipation of a grand market smash...