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...France, studied at the Sorbonne and Oxford, worked as a newspaperman, married a French girl, fathered a son and two daughters, covered the Riff war, wound up as the New York Times correspondent in Geneva (1929-39) just as the League began its, catastrophic fall. Streit got his basic plan for Union Now after studying the shortcomings of the League of Nations for ten years...
...Nobel Prize for Medicine was divided between Banting and Professor John James Rickard Macleod, his department head who had made the research work possible but had done none of it until after the basic discovery. Banting was sore because he felt that Charles Best, the laboratory assistant who had actually helped him track down insulin, had been slighted. He honored Best in his own impulsive way by giving him half of his own share of the prize money...
...time of peace most U. S. industrial capacity is made of India rubber. But last week, in a number of basic industries, capacity could no longer be stretched...
...loyal support that I think I am entitled to from all branches of the membership." (His audience sat in grim, chill silence.) Said he of SEC and its staff: "[They are] to a degree men of good will, but they are men utterly ignorant of the basic conception of markets." (SEC cracked back next day with the fact that its staff was drawn chiefly from brokerage houses and brokers' law firms...
...Frankfurter the scholar of Harvard, makes Constitutional history interesting; Merriman treats the Tudor period from a strictly historical approach which may seem outmoded to the Marxian historian, but which is not dull; Perkins and Owen carry on to modern times with Owen receiving most of the orchids. The basic English courses are 21, 30, 40, and 52. All of these are adequate but not inspiring. Sherburn, generally considered the greatest 18th century scholar is thought dull in his presentation; Jones is called diffuse and the course is criticized for not really focusing on the main works of the period...