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Spicing his speech with a bit of secret history, Chancellor von Schleicher told a story on himself & Cabinet which made the Fatherland chuckle. Two of his ministers, he said, recently quarreled. Minister of Agriculture Baron Friedrich Edler von Braun insisted on retention of Germany's high agricultural tariffs, while Minister of Economics (Industry) Professor Dr. Hermann Warmbold demanded agricultural free trade...
...services, Rabbi Wolf brought suit against Max, Joe, Sam, Ben, Mrs. Tillie and Mrs. Ethel Bormaster. He sought judgment for 150 prayers at $5 each, plus court costs. It is customary for Jewish families to give the synagog something for Kaddish prayers. But most rabbis thought $5 a bit high even for a private prayer, pointing out that Kaddish need not keep a rabbi from his other duties...
...shop director, the pupils worked at weaving, metal, wood and leather work, drawing and painting. Elizabeth Moos taught Rhythmics and directed academic work: social sciences, then arithmetic and writing, after these reading and so on. The parents met regularly, joined in school activities. The village of Croton watched a bit suspiciously the hatless, overalled, unrepressed children, dashing down to look at local industries, asking grown-up questions. The Croton truant officer was perplexed, too. Once he offered to help round up Hessian Hills truants, along with those from the public schools. He was told that was unnecessary...
...Christian fellowship, and the first thing you know, union is simply a ratification of a condition that already exists." Dr. Mary Emma Woolley of Mt. Holyoke College, delegate to last year's stalled Disarmament Conference, spoke on "The Church and World Peace." The Federal Council blenched a bit when its old bogey, Birth Control, bobbed up in a committee report, revised during the past four years, on Social Ideals. One passage favored repeal of legislation against "physicians and other qualified persons" disseminating contraceptive information. Another passage said guardedly that the subject should be "re-examined dispassionately." Presbyterian...
...feature game of the day, Arnold Jones, former tennis captain at Yale, defeated Robert Grant '34 mainly through his well-executed shots. Grant was a bit wild, and seemed to be unable to get a grip on his game. In a long, hard-fought squash match, S. E. Davenport, III '34 wore down his opponent, Phinney, and finally pulled ahead to take the fifth game. Captain J. G. Cornish ocC, lost to the generally superior playing of Harrington, former Harvard player, and member of the Boston squash team that played against the English team in the internationals. The last...