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...political science department, where he had taught 17 years, he was an internationally famed expert on taxation and government. Unaware that his academic neck was about to be chopped, square-bodied William Schaper was suddenly called before the regents September 13, harshly questioned by Pierce Butler about a complaint by the superpatriotic State Commission of Public Safety that he was "a rabid pro-German." Despite his denial of disloyal acts, the regents that night fired him for "his attitude." Schaper's friends charged the real reason for his dismissal was not his attitude toward the War but his advocacy...
Stimson on Ludlow. Alf Landon's complaint against Congress was due to the Ludlow Resolution (TIME, Dec. 27), a proposed amendment to the Constitution providing for declaration of war by national referendum rather than act of Congress. The Ludlow Resolution has almost no chance of passage anyway, but Henry L. Stimson, who succeeded Frank Kellogg as Secretary of State, came to aid his own embarrassed successor, Cordell Hull. Policies of the U. S. State Department change less with changing administrations than those of any other department. Secretary Stimson and Secretary Hull see almost eye to eye on many matters...
...Jeans, Eddington and Professor Andrade. But he is also somewhat annoyed by the paradoxes and abstractions which result from the fact that atomic behavior cannot be visualized or represented by commonplace physical analogy. In a letter printed by Nature last month he drew up a polite bill of complaint against the physicists. A chief item was that after laymen have learned to regard protons, electrons and other charged particles as nothing but electricity, the physicists adduce the neutron which has no charge and therefore cannot exist-although a stream of neutrons will knock the living daylights out of a block...
...Imperial Marble continued to make shipments by boat over the lake to be delivered in Knoxville. These shipments, costing 21? a cubic foot more than overland shipments, figured prominently in Major Berry's first estimate that the TVA had damaged his mineral holdings by $1,633,000. the complaint he filed with TVA before he was appointed Senator this year...
...common complaint among modern U. S. artists is that book illustration has gone to hell. For this some of them might share the blame, since to the naked eye of the average publisher nonrepresentational painting is not much use as illustration. Fact is, however, that the fashion is against any illustrations at all except for children's books-a tendency which reached a little apogee last month when Painter Miguel Covarrubias published a book on Bali, illustrated mostly with photographs by his wife (TIME...