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...drought and fair weather had hopelessly split the delegates. And Britain's Sir Herbert Robson, head of the London Grain Exchange, split them further by growling: "I view with deep concern the increasing interference of governments with international trade. . . . The delegates are very charming diplomats, but very few of them know anything about wheat." Finally last week Argentina's Delegate Tomas A. Le Breton broke up the meeting by handing in Argentina's flat refusal to join in a minimum price agreement. That produced the climax all members had long been expecting. A subcommittee was named...
...assembled governors of Japanese prefectures, chunky Vice Admiral Mineo Osumi, Minister of the Navy, demanded immediate increase in Japan's sea forces. "We appeal to your support for this program which is essential to protect Japan from her enemies," cried he. "The next naval conference will not concern the Navy alone, but may decide the destiny of the Empire. Japan must take this opportunity to free herself from unfavorable restrictions." In Geneva Japan pulled wires to force the withdrawal of Dr. Rajchman as financial adviser to China. Fearful of a show-down on Japan's new position...
...next lecture, which will concern the general problem of social insurance, will be given at noon today. All interested students are urged to attend...
...Harvard owes it to the country to be truly national, having a student body which is a cross-section of the nation, open to all of real merit," said President Conant at the Hot Springs Meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs Saturday night, "My chief concern at present is to provide larger fellowships for men entering Harvard College and the graduate schools, drawing brilliant young men from every state regardless of their resources...
That persistent concern with the exterior characteristics of nature which has governed later European art does not interest the savage. It is the idea, such as he envisions it, that is, of dominating importance. Artistically, this quality of the inner idea is far removed from that of Greek sculptors like Polycleitus and Lysippus, but is nearer to the spirit of the Chinese Hsieh Ho, to whom inner quality and rhythmic vitality was a necessity for any worthy art. The obvious exaggeration and distortion, which appear to be a part of the search for this inner idea, have, of course...