Man & Wife of the Year

Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek

Man of two years (1932 & 1934) was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but certainly he has not been Man of 1937. For 1937 is the first year since he became President of the U. S. that Franklin Roosevelt has not clearly been the dominant figure in U. S. public life: In his one big political battle of the year, over the Supreme Court, he was worsted. Had any one man been primarily responsible for that defeat, he would be a towering figure of politics, but in fact—while many figures, including Senators Wheeler of Montana,...

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