DOCSLIB.ORG

The Foreign Service Journal, June 1935

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
The Foreign Service Journal, June 1935 g/,t AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ★ * JOURNAL * * VOL. XII JUNE, 1935 No. 6 IT'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME.. JUWACAelv/ While we’ve never seen the statistics, we’ll wager fast in your room, it quietly appears (with a flower and there’s no home in the country staffed with such reti¬ the morning paper on the tray). If you crave in-season nues of valets and butlers, chefs and secretaries, maids or out-of-season delicacies, you'll find them in any of and men servants, as our hotel. That’s why we say the our restaurants. Prepared with finesse and served with New Yorker is "no place like home" — purposely. We finesse.You may have your railroad or air-line ortheatre know that everyone secretly longs for and enjoys the tickets ordered for you and brought to you. You may luxury of perfect hotel service. And you have your shirts and suits speeded back know it is yours at the New Yorker, with¬ from laundry or valet, with buttons sewed out luxurious cost. • It is unobtrusive ser¬ 25^0 reduction on and rips miraculously mended. You may vice, too, that never gets on your nerves. to diplomatic and have all this service by scarcely lifting a fin¬ Everyone—front the doorman to the man¬ consular service ger. • You will find the Hotel New Yorker NOTE: the special rate ager—is always friendly, always helpful— reduction applies only conveniently located, its staff pleasantly at¬ to rooms on which the but never effusive. If you want a lazy break¬ rate is $4 a day or more. tentive, and your bill surprisingly modest. HOTEL NEW YORKER 34TH STREET AT EIGHTH AVENUE • NEW YORK CITY Directed by National Hotel Management Company, Inc. • Ralph Hitz, President OTHER HOTELS UNDER SAME DIRECTION: HOTEL LEXINGTON, NEW YORK • NETHERLAND PLAZA, CINCINNATI • BOOK-CADILLAC, DETROIT • THE ADOLPHUS, DALLAS • HOTEL VAN CLEVE, DAYTON JHE AMERICAN pOREIGN gERVICE JOURNAL CONTENTS COVER PICTURE The Citadel, Cairo (See also page 330) GLIMPSES OF GREENLAND By the Honorable Ruth Bryan Owen 313 His MAJESTY THE FAAMASINO MELEKE By Quincy F. Roberts - 317 FULWAR SKIPWITH By Augustus E. Ingram — 320 CAPTAIN HULL’S NIL 322 THE PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY OF CANADA 1035 By W. McG. Harlow 324 FOREIGN SERVICE UNIFORMS IN 1967 .... 327 PHii.ro LETTERS 328 A REAL RADIO TEN YEARS AGO IN THE JOURNAL 330 Natural tone from the Broadcasting Studios in your own vicinity or in a far olT land, is ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP TO BE AWARDED 330 yours by just the turn of the almost magic dial—hear every program at its best with NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT 331 Philco. The Philco leadership held throughout the FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES . 334 years by the combination of the greatest engi¬ neering staff in radio, together with a produc¬ MARRIAGES - 336 tion schedule that gives you the finest in both reception and quality of workmanship at a A POLITICAL BOOKSHELF 337 minimum cost. Cyril Wynne, Review Editor There are 55 magnificent models to meet the taste of the most discriminating buyer—a Addresses by the Honorable Cordell Hull, Philco for every purse and purpose. By C. W. Everyr type and size of radio—AC, DC, AC- DC, battery and 32 volt. The model 28C Montevideo Conference, By C. W. illustrated incorporates the following features: Japan’s Pacific Mandate, By Leo D. Stur¬ Wave range 530 to 1720 kilocycles and 4.13 to 13 megacycles—23-73 meters and 175 to geon. 565 meters. Universal AC, DC, for 110 or 220 volts AC-DC THE PERSONNEL OF THE DEPARTMENT 339 Pentode Audio-System NEWS FROM THE FIELD . 342 Bass Compensation Automatic Volume Control SERVICE VISITORS 349 Three Point Tone Control Full Rubber Floated Chassis IN MEMORIAM 350 6 Philco high-efficiency tubes equal to 8 single purpose tubes 1 FIFTY YEARS AGO — STATE DEPARTMENT Cabinet 16” wide, 8%" high and 8 /*” deep BUILDING 350 Tune in on Philco programs from Station EAQ, Madrid, Spain (9.87 on your Philco dial) SONG OF THE COSMOPOLITE, VERSE PHILCO RADIO AND TELEVISION CORP. By Mariquita Villard 354 Export Department AMERICAN STEEL EXPORT CO. 347 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. Issued monthly by American Foreign Service Associa¬ tion, Department of State, Washington, D. C. Entered as Cable Address: Amsta, New York second-class matter August 20, 1934, at the Post Office, in Washington, D. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE AMERICAN pOREIGN gERVICE JOURNAL arid Lde SERVICE U hrough its world¬ wide organization of Chevrolet assembly plants, sales Chevrolet Cracks offices, distributors '^Ponttac and d ealers, General 0Immobile Motors is in a unique SBaick position to facilitate Cadillac delivery and subsequent JPa Salle service on its products in Q C Cracks Opel any part of the world. 'Jdlitz Crucks GENERAL MOTORS EXPORT COMPANY 1 775 BROADWAY ^Vauxhall NEW YORK CITY ^Bedford Cracks 310 To ‘Patronize Our cA dvertisers Is to Insure a ^Bigger and ^Better Journal for Our Service. Thoughts of INDEX OF ADVERTISERS WASHINGTON American Surety and I rust Company 335 Atlas Engraving Co - 365 Bacardi. Santiago de Culm — __ 367 Baltimore Mail Line- ..... 347 Chase National Bank - 356 FOREIGN Service Continental Hotel—Paris - ..... 367 Officers Have A Particular Crillon, Hotel—Paris — ..... 367 Interest In The Many ..... 367 Dunapalota Hotel—Budapest __ Activities of Government. Federal Storage Company 346 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co ■—— 312 France et Choiseul Hotel—Paris ..... 367 • When next you visit General Motors Export Co ..... 310 The Capital, stay at the insti¬ Goodyear Tire & Rubber Export Company ._. 343 tution where international per¬ Grace, W. R , and Company „ 361 sonages reside and great events Harris and Ewing 362 occur. Hungaria Hotel Budapest ..... 367 International Telephone & Telegraph Co. 355 Single Rooms from $4 Kressmann, Ed., & Co., Bordeaux . 367 Le Boissy D'Anglas Restaurant—Paris ..... 367 Double Rooms from $6 Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Co. 336 Martinique Hotel 363 Subject to a Diplomatic Mayflower Hotel _. 311 Discount Merchants Transfer and Storage Company ..... 359 Middleton, Mrs. Lewis ... 336 Munson Steamship Lines ..... 337 National Geographic Magazine .... 349 New England Mutual Life Insurance Co 341 New Yorker Hotel — II Cover Pagani’s Restaurant—London 367 Palace-Ainbassadeurs Hotel—Rome . 367 Pan-American Airways, Inc. .. 357 Philco Radio Company — 309 Plaza Hotel 345 Rockefeller Center III Cover Sapp. Earl W, C.L.U 341 Savoy-Plaza Hotel — 345 Security Storage Company of Washington 335 Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc — 351 Strasbourg, Restaurant Brasserie de—Marseilles 367 Swift & Co., Inc. 344 Tyner, Miss E. J.... 362 Underwood Elliott Fisher Company.. 358 United Fruit Company 363 l inited States Fidelity and Guaranty Company..... 362 United States Lines 337 United States Steel Products Co 361 von Zielinski, Carl M. J - 356 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel IV Cover Willard Hotel 1 357 Woodward and Lothrop 353 311 JHE AMERICAN pOREIGN CERVICEJOURNAL SPELLS SAFETY AND LONGER MILEAGE TO MOTORISTS EVERYWHERE THROUGHOUT t he entire world, on every highway and byway, the name Firestone on a tire stands for safety, greater dependability, and longer mileage. There are two reasons for the superiority of the new Firestone High Speed Tire. One is Gum-Dipping, the patented Firestone process by which every cord in every ply is soaked and coated in pure liquid rubber, eliminating frictional heat, the chief cause of tire failure. The other reason is the patented Firestone construction feature — two extra plies of Gum-Dipped cords under the tread. This is why Firestone can give you a tire with such a deep-cut, wider, more rugged tread that provides 1 5 % to 2 5% greater non-skid safety, and gives you miles and miles of extra service. See your Firestone dealer today. You can’t afford to put off safety! ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Listen to the Voice o! Firestone — featuring Richard Crooks, Gladys Swarthout, or Nelson Eddy—every Monday night over N. B. C.—WEAF Network ... A Five Star Program 312 THE FOREIGN S VOL. XII, No. 6 WASHINGTON, D. C. JUNE, 1935 Glimpses of Greenland By THE HONORABLE RUTH BRYAN OWEN, American Minister to Denmark NTIL I sailed for Greenland on the 1,400-ton obtain permission. Greenland is entirely closed to u motor ship Disko, my own impressions of that traders as well as to tourists. The Greenland Ad¬ land scarcely went beyond the words of the hymn, ministration, under the Danish Government, holds “From Greenland’s icy mountains, a monopoly on all imports and exports. The Es¬ From India’s coral kimo sells his catch of strand . furs and fish to the Sty- I had noticed that re¬ relse and buys his supply turning travelers seemed of staple commodities to have found a curious from the Government’s fascination in the Arctic, store in each settlement. hut none of those whom I There is no line of pas¬ questioned gave any an¬ senger ships connecting alysis of the quality w'hieh Greenland with Denmark. charmed them. They were The ships which ply be¬ all, however, definite and tween Denmark and her unanimous in their wish colony are the ships of the to return to the far North. Greenland Administration Denmark’s great Arctic carrying the Government colony, Greenland, lies officials and those w h o outside our general pur¬ have obtained special view' for two reasons. Government permission. Stretching as it does from Teachers, clergymen and a latitude of 60° into the doctors who minister to almost unexplored ice and the health, mental, moral sea around the North and physical, of the Eski¬ Pole, it is well off the mos: scientists going to beaten track of travelers. study the Viking ruins And, being held by the and analyze the mineral Danish Government as a content of the hills; paint¬ closed country, even the ers whose art constitutes hardy ones who might, a reason for their voyage for some reason, choose MINISTER OWEN WITH ESKIMO SLEDGE —these comprise the pas to visit it, cannot easily DOG PUPPY, “DISKO” senger-list of the Disko, Left to right: Mrs.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • SURVEY of CURRENT BUSINESS September 1935
    SEPTEMBER 1935 OF CURRENT BUSINE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE WASHINGTON VOLUME 15 NUMBER 9 Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES MINERALS YEARBOOK 1935 The First Complete Official Record Issued in 1935 A LIBRARY OF CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MINERAL INDUSTRY (In One Volume) Survey of gold and silver mining and markets Detailed State mining reviews Current trends in coal and oil Analysis of the extent of business recovery for vari- ous mineral groups 75 Chapters ' 59 Contributors ' 129 Illustrations - about 1200 Pages THE STANDARD AUTHENTIC REFERENCE BOOK ON THE MINING INDUSTRY CO NT ENTS Part I—Survey of the mineral industries: Secondary metals Part m—Konmetals- Lime Review of the mineral industry Iron ore, pig iron, ferro'alloys, and steel Coal Clay Coke and byproducts Abrasive materials Statistical summary of mineral production Bauxite e,nd aluminum World production of minerals and economic Recent developments in coal preparation and Sulphur and pyrites Mercury utilization Salt, bromine, calcium chloride, and iodine aspects of international mineral policies Mangane.se and manganiferous ores Fuel briquets Phosphate rock Part 11—Metals: Molybdenum Peat Fuller's earth Gold and silver Crude petroleum and petroleum products Talc and ground soapstone Copper Tungsten Uses of petroleum fuels Fluorspar and cryolite Lead Tin Influences of petroleum technology upon com- Feldspar posite interest in oil Zinc ChroHHtt: Asbestos
    [Show full text]
  • Women in the United States Congress: 1917-2012
    Women in the United States Congress: 1917-2012 Jennifer E. Manning Information Research Specialist Colleen J. Shogan Deputy Director and Senior Specialist November 26, 2012 Congressional Research Service 7-5700 www.crs.gov RL30261 CRS Report for Congress Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Women in the United States Congress: 1917-2012 Summary Ninety-four women currently serve in the 112th Congress: 77 in the House (53 Democrats and 24 Republicans) and 17 in the Senate (12 Democrats and 5 Republicans). Ninety-two women were initially sworn in to the 112th Congress, two women Democratic House Members have since resigned, and four others have been elected. This number (94) is lower than the record number of 95 women who were initially elected to the 111th Congress. The first woman elected to Congress was Representative Jeannette Rankin (R-MT, 1917-1919, 1941-1943). The first woman to serve in the Senate was Rebecca Latimer Felton (D-GA). She was appointed in 1922 and served for only one day. A total of 278 women have served in Congress, 178 Democrats and 100 Republicans. Of these women, 239 (153 Democrats, 86 Republicans) have served only in the House of Representatives; 31 (19 Democrats, 12 Republicans) have served only in the Senate; and 8 (6 Democrats, 2 Republicans) have served in both houses. These figures include one non-voting Delegate each from Guam, Hawaii, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Currently serving Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) holds the record for length of service by a woman in Congress with 35 years (10 of which were spent in the House).
    [Show full text]
  • History of the Park and Critical Periods of Development
    Cultural Landscape Report, Treatment, and Management Plan for Branch Brook Park Newark, New Jersey Volume 2: History of the Park and Critical Periods of Development Prepared for: Branch Brook Park Alliance A project of Connection-Newark 744 Broad Street, 31st Floor Newark, New Jersey 07102 Essex County Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs 115 Clifton Avenue Newark, New Jersey 07104 Newark, New Jersey Cultural Landscape Report 7 November 2002 Prepared for: Branch Brook Park Alliance A project of Connection-Newark 744 Broad Street, 31st Floor Newark, New Jersey 07102 Essex County Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs 115 Clifton Avenue Newark, New Jersey 07104 Prepared by: Rhodeside & Harwell, Incorporated Landscape Architecture & Planning 320 King Street, Suite 202 Alexandria, Virginia 22314 “...there is...a pleasure common, constant and universal to all town parks, and it results from the feeling of relief Professional Planning & Engineering Corporation 24 Commerce Street, Suite 1827, 18th Floor experienced by those entering them, on escaping from the Newark, New Jersey 07102-4054 cramped, confined, and controlling circumstances of the streets of the town; in other words, a sense of enlarged Arleyn Levee 51 Stella Road freedom is to all, at all times, the most certain and the Belmont, Massachusetts 02178 most valuable gratification afforded by the park.” Dr. Charles Beveridge Department of History, The American University - Olmsted, Vaux & Co. 4000 Brandywine Street, NW Landscape Architects Washington, D.C.
    [Show full text]
  • Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1891-1957, Record Group 85 New Orleans, Louisiana Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, LA, 1910-1945
    Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1891-1957, Record Group 85 New Orleans, Louisiana Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, LA, 1910-1945. T939. 311 rolls. (~A complete list of rolls has been added.) Roll Volumes Dates 1 1-3 January-June, 1910 2 4-5 July-October, 1910 3 6-7 November, 1910-February, 1911 4 8-9 March-June, 1911 5 10-11 July-October, 1911 6 12-13 November, 1911-February, 1912 7 14-15 March-June, 1912 8 16-17 July-October, 1912 9 18-19 November, 1912-February, 1913 10 20-21 March-June, 1913 11 22-23 July-October, 1913 12 24-25 November, 1913-February, 1914 13 26 March-April, 1914 14 27 May-June, 1914 15 28-29 July-October, 1914 16 30-31 November, 1914-February, 1915 17 32 March-April, 1915 18 33 May-June, 1915 19 34-35 July-October, 1915 20 36-37 November, 1915-February, 1916 21 38-39 March-June, 1916 22 40-41 July-October, 1916 23 42-43 November, 1916-February, 1917 24 44 March-April, 1917 25 45 May-June, 1917 26 46 July-August, 1917 27 47 September-October, 1917 28 48 November-December, 1917 29 49-50 Jan. 1-Mar. 15, 1918 30 51-53 Mar. 16-Apr. 30, 1918 31 56-59 June 1-Aug. 15, 1918 32 60-64 Aug. 16-0ct. 31, 1918 33 65-69 Nov. 1', 1918-Jan. 15, 1919 34 70-73 Jan. 16-Mar. 31, 1919 35 74-77 April-May, 1919 36 78-79 June-July, 1919 37 80-81 August-September, 1919 38 82-83 October-November, 1919 39 84-85 December, 1919-January, 1920 40 86-87 February-March, 1920 41 88-89 April-May, 1920 42 90 June, 1920 43 91 July, 1920 44 92 August, 1920 45 93 September, 1920 46 94 October, 1920 47 95-96 November, 1920 48 97-98 December, 1920 49 99-100 Jan.
    [Show full text]
  • CSU Student Eastside Parks Study
    EASTSIDE PARKS Connection | Activation | Community Presented by: TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Project Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................... 3 I. Study Area Background ............................................................................................................................................... 6 II. Community Engagement, Project Focus, & Essential Tasks ................................................................................... 20 III. Plan ........................................................................................................................................................................... 29 IV. Implementatoin ...................................................................................................................................................... 88 V. References .............................................................................................................................................................. 90 VI. Appendices ............................................................................................................................................................. 94 ii Eastside Parks |Connection | Activation | Community I. PROJECT INTRODUCTION Project Background East Side Parks is the centerpiece of the 2020 Planning Studio course offered by the Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University, for its Master of Urban Planning
    [Show full text]
  • 10. Interlude in Denmark (PDF)
    10 Interlude in Denmark In my early student days -- as I have mentioned in chapter 3 -- my friend Christiansen-Weniger and I won an election as German student representatives on the ticket by striking a mathematical funny bone: Christiansen-Weniger - von Hippel [Christiansen minus von Hippel]. In the meantime, "Krischan" had become a professor of agriculture and had been called to Ankara in that capacity. He was an "unblemished Aryan," still a German citizen, and his lovely wife, Luise, alias "Körnchen," also a youth-movement friend, came to visit us. She intended to fly to Warsaw, and I wanted to fly to Copenhagen via Danzig, in order to visit Olga, who was directing a training school for agricultural helpers in that neighborhood. We therefore decided to fly together from Istanbul. In those early years of aviation, this was a major undertaking. Istanbul did not yet have a real airport and our six-passenger plane, with semi-open cockpit, took off from a meadow at night with the headlights of carefully stationed cars outlining a runway. Before our departure, we received the reassuring news that the plane flying the reverse route had crashed in the Albanian mountains. Our flight proved glorious, however. We passed over the Balkans in semi-darkness. No light shone from the ground there because practically all of its settlements had then been wiped out in the Balkan Wars and World War I. At sunrise we reached the Carpathian mountains and flew along that stunning semi-circle separating Hungary from Poland. The air became turbulent and we had to throw up "par la fenêtre [out the window]." At noon we landed in Warsaw, where Luise left me.
    [Show full text]
  • GENERAL PHOTOGRAPHS File Subject Index
    GENERAL PHOTOGRAPHS File Subject Index A (General) Abeokuta: the Alake of Abram, Morris B.: see A (General) Abruzzi: Duke of Absher, Franklin Roosevelt: see A (General) Adams, C.E.: see A (General) Adams, Charles, Dr. D.F., C.E., Laura Franklin Delano, Gladys, Dorothy Adams, Fred: see A (General) Adams, Frederick B. and Mrs. (Eilen W. Delano) Adams, Frederick B., Jr. Adams, William Adult Education Program Advertisements, Sears: see A (General) Advertising: Exhibits re: bill (1944) against false advertising Advertising: Seagram Distilleries Corporation Agresta, Fred Jr.: see A (General) Agriculture Agriculture: Cotton Production: Mexican Cotton Pickers Agriculture: Department of (photos by) Agriculture: Department of: Weather Bureau Agriculture: Dutchess County Agriculture: Farm Training Program Agriculture: Guayule Cultivation Agriculture: Holmes Foundry Company- Farm Plan, 1933 Agriculture: Land Sale Agriculture: Pig Slaughter Agriculture: Soil Conservation Agriculture: Surplus Commodities (Consumers' Guide) Aircraft (2) Aircraft, 1907- 1914 (2) Aircraft: Presidential Aircraft: World War II: see World War II: Aircraft Airmail Akihito, Crown Prince of Japan: Visit to Hyde Park, NY Akin, David Akiyama, Kunia: see A (General) Alabama Alaska Alaska, Matanuska Valley Albemarle Island Albert, Medora: see A (General) Albright, Catherine Isabelle: see A (General) Albright, Edward (Minister to Finland) Albright, Ethel Marie: see A (General) Albright, Joe Emma: see A (General) Alcantara, Heitormelo: see A (General) Alderson, Wrae: see A (General) Aldine, Charles: see A (General) Aldrich, Richard and Mrs. Margaret Chanler Alexander (son of Charles and Belva Alexander): see A (General) Alexander, John H. Alexitch, Vladimir Joseph Alford, Bradford: see A (General) Allen, Mrs. Idella: see A (General) 2 Allen, Mrs. Mary E.: see A (General) Allen, R.C.
    [Show full text]
  • Housing Overview 16 Buildings and 3,188 Units of Housing
    Housing Overview 16 buildings and 3,188 units of housing PERMANENT HOUSING THE TIMES SQUARE THE DOROTHY ROSS THE PRINCE GEORGE THE CHRISTOPHER THE SCHERMERHORN THE BROOK THE LEE Manhattan FRIEDMAN RESIDENCE Manhattan Manhattan Brooklyn Bronx Manhattan Manhattan Common Ground’s first Common Ground restored the The Christopher is home The Schermerhorn is Common The Brook is Common Ground’s The Lee is home to Common residence and the largest sup- Owned by The Actors Fund and Prince George Hotel to create to Common Ground’s first Ground’s first new construction first residence in the Bronx. Ground’s second Foyer Program. portive housing project in the managed by Common Ground, permanent supportive housing. Foyer program. Run by Good project. Run by The Door, the Foyer Opened 2010 nation. The Dorothy Ross Friedman Shepherd Services, the Foyer • provides housing and support • Opened 1999 • Opened 2009 Residence provides housing to provides housing and support • 190 Units services to youth aging out of Opened 1991 • 416 Units services to youth aging out of 217 Units foster care or housing needy. formerly homeless individuals • • • 120 formerly homeless • 652 Units and low-income working profes- foster care or housing needy. • Mix of low-income working • Mix of low-income working single adults, many with Opened 2010 sionals, many in the arts and • • Mix of low-income working persons and formerly home- Opened 2004 adults from the arts and special needs • 263 Units persons and formerly home- entertainment industry. less single adults entertainment
    [Show full text]
  • 56 Stories Desire for Freedom and the Uncommon Courage with Which They Tried to Attain It in 56 Stories 1956
    For those who bore witness to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, it had a significant and lasting influence on their lives. The stories in this book tell of their universal 56 Stories desire for freedom and the uncommon courage with which they tried to attain it in 56 Stories 1956. Fifty years after the Revolution, the Hungar- ian American Coalition and Lauer Learning 56 Stories collected these inspiring memoirs from 1956 participants through the Freedom- Fighter56.com oral history website. The eyewitness accounts of this amazing mod- Edith K. Lauer ern-day David vs. Goliath struggle provide Edith Lauer serves as Chair Emerita of the Hun- a special Hungarian-American perspective garian American Coalition, the organization she and pass on the very spirit of the Revolu- helped found in 1991. She led the Coalition’s “56 Stories” is a fascinating collection of testimonies of heroism, efforts to promote NATO expansion, and has incredible courage and sacrifice made by Hungarians who later tion of 1956 to future generations. been a strong advocate for maintaining Hun- became Americans. On the 50th anniversary we must remem- “56 Stories” contains 56 personal testimo- garian education and culture as well as the hu- ber the historical significance of the 1956 Revolution that ex- nials from ’56-ers, nine stories from rela- man rights of 2.5 million Hungarians who live posed the brutality and inhumanity of the Soviets, and led, in due tives of ’56-ers, and a collection of archival in historic national communities in countries course, to freedom for Hungary and an untold number of others.
    [Show full text]
  • The Life of Ruth Bryan Owen: Florida’S First Congresswoman and America’S First Woman Diplomat by Sarah Pauline Vickers
    Tampa Bay History Volume 24 Issue 1 Article 18 1-1-2010 The Life of Ruth Bryan Owen: Florida’s First Congresswoman and America’s First Woman Diplomat by Sarah Pauline Vickers Doris Weatherford Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/tampabayhistory Recommended Citation Weatherford, Doris (2010) "The Life of Ruth Bryan Owen: Florida’s First Congresswoman and America’s First Woman Diplomat by Sarah Pauline Vickers," Tampa Bay History: Vol. 24 : Iss. 1 , Article 18. Available at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/tampabayhistory/vol24/iss1/18 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Open Access Journals at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Tampa Bay History by an authorized editor of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Weatherford: <i>The Life of Ruth Bryan Owen: Florida’s First Congresswoman and 86 Tampa Bay History and the U.S. Colored Troops. Waters and Edmonds thus succeed only partially in making known the “secret” history of the Floridians’ war. John David Smith University of North Carolina at Charlotte The Life of Ruth Bryan Owen: Florida’s First Congresswoman and America’s First Woman Diplomat. By Sarah Pauline Vickers (Tallahassee: Sentry Press, 2009. xviii, 231 pp. Dedication, acknowledgments, preface, introduction, B&W photographs, bibliography, index) Every Floridian should know Ruth Bryan Owen: she was the first congresswoman from the South, and Florida voters elected her in 1928. That was just eight years after Florida women got the vote via the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • Federal Reserve Bulletin June 1935
    FEDERAL RESERVE BULLETIN JUNE 1935 ISSUED BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD AT WASHINGTON Business and Credit Conditions Industrial Advances by Federal Reserve Banks Annual Report of the Bank for International Settlements UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1935 Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD Ex-officio members: MARRINER S. ECCLES, Governor. HENRY MORGENTHAU, Jr., J. J. THOMAS, Vice Governor. Secretary of the Treasury, Chairman, CHARLES S. HAMLIN. J. F. T. O'CONNOR, ADOLPH C. MILLER. Comptroller of the Currency. GEORGE R. JAMES. M. S. SZYMCZAK. LAWRENCE CLAYTON, Assistant to the Governor. LAUCHLIN CURRIE, Assistant Director, Division of ELLIOTT L. THURSTON, Special Assistant to the Governor. Research and Statistics. CHESTER MORRILL, Secretary. WOODLIEF THOMAS, Assistant Director, Division of J. C. NOELL, Assistant Secretary. Research and Statistics. LISTON P. BETHEA, Assistant Secretary. E. L. SMEAD, Chief, Division of Bank Operations. S. R. CARPENTER, Assistant Secretary. J. R. VAN FOSSEN, Assistant Chief, Division of Bank WALTER WYATT, General Counsel. Operations. GEORGE B. VEST, Assistant General Counsel. J. E. HORBETT, Assistant Chief, Division of Bank B. MAGRUDER WINGFIELD, Assistant General Counsel. Operations. LEO H. PAULGER, Chief, Division of Examinations. CARL E. PARRY, Chief, Division of Security Loans. R. F. LEONARD, Assistant Chief, Division of Examina- PHILIP E. BRADLEY, Assistant Chief, Division of Security tions. Loans. C. E. CAGLE, Assistant Chief, Division of Examinations. O. E. FOULK, Fiscal Agent. FRANK J. DRINNEN, Federal Reserve Examiner. JOSEPHINE E. LALLY, Deputy Fiscal Agent. E. A. GOLDENWEISER, Director, Division of Research and Statistics. FEDERAL ADVISORY COUNCIL District no.
    [Show full text]
  • Why Doesn't the United States Have a European-Style Welfare State?
    0332-04-Alesina 1/3/02 15:31 Page 187 ALBERTO ALESINA Harvard University EDWARD GLAESER Harvard University BRUCE SACERDOTE Dartmouth College Why Doesn’t the United States Have a European-Style Welfare State? EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS REDISTRIBUTE income among their citizens on a much larger scale than does the U.S. government. European social pro- grams are more generous and reach a larger share of citizens. European tax systems are more progressive. European regulations designed to protect the poor are more intrusive. In this paper we try to understand why. The literature on the size of government is rich and varied. However, here we do not focus on the size of government as such, but rather on the redistributive side of government policies. Thus our goal is in one sense narrower than answering the question, “What explains the size of govern- ment?” since we focus on a single, but increasingly important, role of fis- cal policy. Yet in another sense our focus is broader, because redistributive policies go beyond the government budget—think, for instance, of labor market policies. We consider economic, political, and behavioral explanations for these differences between the United States and Europe. Economic explanations focus on the variance of income and the skewness of the income distribu- tion before taxes and transfers, the social costs of taxation, the volatility of income, and expected changes in income for the median voter. We con- clude that most of these theories cannot explain the observed differences. We are grateful to our discussants for very useful suggestions. We also thank William Easterly, Benjamin Friedman, Michael Mandler, Casey Mulligan, Roberto Perotti, Andrei Shleifer, Theda Skocpol, and a large number of conference participants for very useful com- ments.
    [Show full text]