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...President issued an executive order to coördinate diplomatic and consular activities of the State Department's foreign service. He ordained future unified direction in promoting and protecting commercial and other interests in the U.S. abroad. To avoid duplication of effort, diplomatic and consular officers must exchange fortnightly briefs of economic and trade reports...
...Vatican visit was also abandoned to avoid misinterpretation by the Italian people. The projected visit of the Rumanian couple to Belgium was also cancelled because of tense relations between Belgium and Rumania, arising out of Prime Minister Bratiano's scheme for camouflaging repudiation of his country's foreign debts...
...covered the 310 miles in 2 hours, 21 minutes, averaging nearly 150 miles an hour. Flying south of Binghamton, at a height of 6,000 feet, the officers encountered a flock of Canadian geese flying north in "V" formation. The flock broke into circular formation just in time to avoid collision. Had they struck the plane, it is probable that no damage would have resulted-except to the geese. But the propeller of a Liberty motor revolves at 1,600 revolutions per minute-so rapidly that a point on the blade may travel at 500 miles an hour. The impact...
...first Smoker of the Freshman class will be held at 6.45 in the Living Room of the Union on Wednesday April 9. It has formerly been the custom to hold the Smoker after the spring vacation, but this year in order to avoid the crowding of the annual entertainment, the Smoker, and the Jubilee it has been decided to advance the date...
...bottle very rich indeed; solid cream; turn it upside down if you don't believe it. So then he sat down and took the cream out in spoonfuls and put it all into the book he was just beginning, "Leave It to Psmith." And people who must avoid cream and humor should be extremely careful not to read this new Wodehouse novel...