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...keeping straight a squalling horde of Chinese babies after the 1906 earthquake. During the War he was a corps chief-of-staff in France, later commanded all U. S. troops in Germany. Back home he got his second star in 1924, was later appointed commander of the Ninth Corps Area (Far West) where he handled with minimum red tape more CCCampers than there were soldiers in the U. S. Army (116,000). General Craig of St. Joseph, Mo. and Mrs. Craig of Berkeley, Calif, might have posed for the purposeful pair in Artist Grant Wood's American Gothic...
...attitude of France in the current crisis reminds one strongly of the late Nero, who is reported to have played a bacchanalian love ditty on his fiddle while Poppea was seducing his chief minister: Ever since the Huns invaded the sacred area of Montmartre in the seventies, Marianne has suspected the lusty Max of evil intentions. And with the advent of Hitler, those suspicions have changed into horrified terror...
...made Italy's first proposals. His League Delegate Baron Aloisi asked, in effect, for a partial League mandate over Ethiopia. The country's armed forces would be largely under Italian advisers to the Emperor, and exclusively mandated to Italy would be a part of Western Ethiopia similar to the area His Majesty tried to grant as a concession to "Standard Oil" (TIME, Sept. 9) but smaller. Since Britain and France each hopes to tap Ethiopia's trade by offering the Empire a corridor to the sea through its colony. Dictator Mussolini was again overindulging his irrepressible sense of humor when...
...attempt was made yesterday to discover just why the University had adopted such a forceful "no parking" policy concerning an area which, as one indignant "tagoo" declared, seemed to be of little use for anything but parking. This attempt was successfully parried by the labyrinthine bureaucracy of Lehman Hall. Charles R. (Colonel) Apted '06, when questioned on the matter, said that the Fire Department had complained they would be unable to get their gigantic new hook-and-ladder into this triangle with the parking situation as it now stands. As far as he was concerned, however, he was simply carrying...
...River in Berlin, N. H. are the mills of Brown Co., a $74,000,000 family-owned paper & pulp concern that was founded as a lumber company in 1852. It has smaller mills in Quebec, general offices in Portland. Me. and timber lands owned outright that are larger in area than the State of Connecticut. The original company was purchased during the Civil War by a Portland lumber merchant named William Wentworth Brown, who branched into paper & pulp in the 1890's. His four sons inherited the business and today are its only officers and directors. And his grandsons...