September 9, 1935
In baseball news: "With the Cardinals' Phil Collins losing to Curt Davis and the Phils, 4–3, the Cubs win their 5th and 6th straight games. Chicago tops the Braves, 5–1 and 2–1, behind the pitching of Larry French and Tex Carleton, cutting the Cardinal lead to a single game."
The Senators lost to the Tigers, 5-4. This dropped their record to 56-76 - sixth place in the AL.
Clyde Herring, the governor of Iowa, was on the cover of Time magazine. Here was the magazine's version of the baseball pennant race:
"Baseball superstition says that the team which is leading each major league on July 4 will win the pennant. Last July 4, the New York Giants were nine games ahead in the National League, the New York Yankees one game ahead in the American League. More logical is the belief that the teams which lead the leagues on Labor Day will finish first. On Labor Day last week, the Detroit Tigers were nine full games ahead of the Yankees and seemed destined to win the American League pennant more easily this year than last. In the National League, the Champion St. Louis Cardinals were clinging to first place by two games, with the Giants and Chicago Cubs bunched close behind and the Pittsburgh Pirates within striking distance. "
The chief international story was the ongoing crisis in Italo-Ethiopian relations:
"If the prestige of the League of Nations is to be saved by restraining Benito Mussolini, obviously France and Britain must do the hog-tying. In Paris swart, astute Premier Pierre Laval picked the strongest possible delegation of pro-League French statesmen to go with him this week to Geneva. Portly, pipe-sucking Edouard Herriot and fluffy-maned, impassioned Joseph Paul-Boncour, both onetime Premiers, are the two big League guns, but they are flanked by pontifical old Henry Berenger, Chairman of the French Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and kinetic Deputy Paul Bastid, the Chamber's Foreign Affairs Chairman. Though French public opinion remained friendly to Italy last week it also remained pacifist and continued to regard the League as a vital strut in the structure of Security—in France a word more magic than Peace. "
The Emperor had recently signed a deal granting an oil concession to British interests. The French were non-plussed by this act which was apparently designed to win British and American support for Ethiopia. The French, by contrast, were willing to hand Ethiopia over to Mussolini:
"The [French] Premier promised Benito Mussolini a "free hand" as to Ethiopia when they last met in Rome (TIME, Jan. 14, 21). Ever since, M. Laval has hoped that it might be possible to pass off a Fascist conquest of Ethiopia at Geneva by giving it some other name than "war." It might, for example, be called a "colonial expedition." Early last week M. Laval suggested the advantages of this name to Sir George Clerk, but the British Ambassador reacted by freezing up. Without exactly saying so, Sir George intimated that the French may be the sort of people who would keep the League going and save Europe from unpleasant complications by letting Il Duce have his war under some sweeter name, but that His Majesty's Government are not that sort of people. Few days later, when the odor of oil arose, it was like attar of roses in the black nostrils of peasant-born Pierre Laval."
Finally, this interesting item from Time on the quarrel between Mexican artists Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros:
"Artists in the U. S. will, if necessary, argue all through the night about their work, but they seldom resort to gunfire. In Mexico, art is taken much more seriously. Last week a sober crowd of black-coated schoolteachers filled the auditorium of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City for a conference on Progressive Education. On the platform Painter David Alfaro Siquieros, one of the founders of the famed Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors (now defunct) that first brought Mexican mural painting to the world's attention, was expounding his theories. Up from a rear row seat suddenly sprang the best-known member of that syndicate, Diego Rivera, who yanked a revolver from his hip pocket, pointed it straight at his old companion-in-paint.
Before Artist Rivera could pull the trigger, bystanders intervened. But honor had been impugned and a duel was in order. Half an hour's furious talk on the part of the authorities convinced both principals that the duel should be one of words, to be held in the same place the following night.
Fighting point between the two muralists was the charge that neither was sufficiently Communist. A hearty laugh was this to thoroughgoing Reds, who have disowned Rivera and Siquieros time & again. Possibly the proletariat never had a more talented group of advocates than the members of the old Mexican syndicate. Besides Rivera and Siquieros it included Jose Clemente Orozco, Xavier Guerrero, Carlos Merida, Jean Chariot. All were real artists, sturdy individualists. All have made international reputations and a certain amount of money. With growing fame all have developed an unintelligent but thoroughly natural jealousy of each other. Because Muralist Siquieros was the author of the famed manifesto which launched the Revolutionary Syndicate, and because Muralist Rivera has gained the greatest publicity, feeling between these two has been particularly bitter."
The Senators lost to the Tigers, 5-4. This dropped their record to 56-76 - sixth place in the AL.
Clyde Herring, the governor of Iowa, was on the cover of Time magazine. Here was the magazine's version of the baseball pennant race:
"Baseball superstition says that the team which is leading each major league on July 4 will win the pennant. Last July 4, the New York Giants were nine games ahead in the National League, the New York Yankees one game ahead in the American League. More logical is the belief that the teams which lead the leagues on Labor Day will finish first. On Labor Day last week, the Detroit Tigers were nine full games ahead of the Yankees and seemed destined to win the American League pennant more easily this year than last. In the National League, the Champion St. Louis Cardinals were clinging to first place by two games, with the Giants and Chicago Cubs bunched close behind and the Pittsburgh Pirates within striking distance. "
The chief international story was the ongoing crisis in Italo-Ethiopian relations:
"If the prestige of the League of Nations is to be saved by restraining Benito Mussolini, obviously France and Britain must do the hog-tying. In Paris swart, astute Premier Pierre Laval picked the strongest possible delegation of pro-League French statesmen to go with him this week to Geneva. Portly, pipe-sucking Edouard Herriot and fluffy-maned, impassioned Joseph Paul-Boncour, both onetime Premiers, are the two big League guns, but they are flanked by pontifical old Henry Berenger, Chairman of the French Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and kinetic Deputy Paul Bastid, the Chamber's Foreign Affairs Chairman. Though French public opinion remained friendly to Italy last week it also remained pacifist and continued to regard the League as a vital strut in the structure of Security—in France a word more magic than Peace. "
The Emperor had recently signed a deal granting an oil concession to British interests. The French were non-plussed by this act which was apparently designed to win British and American support for Ethiopia. The French, by contrast, were willing to hand Ethiopia over to Mussolini:
"The [French] Premier promised Benito Mussolini a "free hand" as to Ethiopia when they last met in Rome (TIME, Jan. 14, 21). Ever since, M. Laval has hoped that it might be possible to pass off a Fascist conquest of Ethiopia at Geneva by giving it some other name than "war." It might, for example, be called a "colonial expedition." Early last week M. Laval suggested the advantages of this name to Sir George Clerk, but the British Ambassador reacted by freezing up. Without exactly saying so, Sir George intimated that the French may be the sort of people who would keep the League going and save Europe from unpleasant complications by letting Il Duce have his war under some sweeter name, but that His Majesty's Government are not that sort of people. Few days later, when the odor of oil arose, it was like attar of roses in the black nostrils of peasant-born Pierre Laval."
Finally, this interesting item from Time on the quarrel between Mexican artists Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros:
"Artists in the U. S. will, if necessary, argue all through the night about their work, but they seldom resort to gunfire. In Mexico, art is taken much more seriously. Last week a sober crowd of black-coated schoolteachers filled the auditorium of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City for a conference on Progressive Education. On the platform Painter David Alfaro Siquieros, one of the founders of the famed Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors (now defunct) that first brought Mexican mural painting to the world's attention, was expounding his theories. Up from a rear row seat suddenly sprang the best-known member of that syndicate, Diego Rivera, who yanked a revolver from his hip pocket, pointed it straight at his old companion-in-paint.
Before Artist Rivera could pull the trigger, bystanders intervened. But honor had been impugned and a duel was in order. Half an hour's furious talk on the part of the authorities convinced both principals that the duel should be one of words, to be held in the same place the following night.
Fighting point between the two muralists was the charge that neither was sufficiently Communist. A hearty laugh was this to thoroughgoing Reds, who have disowned Rivera and Siquieros time & again. Possibly the proletariat never had a more talented group of advocates than the members of the old Mexican syndicate. Besides Rivera and Siquieros it included Jose Clemente Orozco, Xavier Guerrero, Carlos Merida, Jean Chariot. All were real artists, sturdy individualists. All have made international reputations and a certain amount of money. With growing fame all have developed an unintelligent but thoroughly natural jealousy of each other. Because Muralist Siquieros was the author of the famed manifesto which launched the Revolutionary Syndicate, and because Muralist Rivera has gained the greatest publicity, feeling between these two has been particularly bitter."
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