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...Even last June the British were exerting pressure," snapped the Professor. "They were demanding immediate payment from us for bunker coal and freezing up on credit." Off the record Italians were said to have noted that, within 24 hours after II Duce refused the concessions regarding Ethiopia offered by Britain last summer (TIME, Aug. 26), British bankers flashed urgent messages to their U. S. affiliates and, when these curtailed credit to Italy, their action was given by British bankers subsequently as a reason why they could not extend credit to Italy. "I have been steadily engaged in adjusting the National...
...Bunker Hill...
When President Conant rode into University Hall two years ago like Paul Revere, keen observers predicted a Harvard Revolution. They were right. Returning graduates will find that the modern Yankee has won decisively at Bunker Hill and Saratoga and that another Yorktown is only a few years distant...
...walk out of my hotel and in five minutes I think I am back in the country." Boston and Washington are her favorite American cities. "There are so many historical points I wanted to see, the first day, all I did was to run around asking people where Bunker Hill was, or where Paul Revere started riding...
...voice is rich and clear. He plays and sings with his eyes closed, taps single time with one foot, triple with the other. He claims that most of his songs are his own. He sang about when "me and a bunch of cowboys had that famous battle on Bunker Hill," and again about the Negro who "throwed his jelly* out of the window.' The minstrel was proudest when he chanted the petition which won him his first pardon. The refrain...