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...Foreign Ministers at Geneva into ardent lobbyists against any Council action which might impute even blame to Germany. Meanwhile Swiss defectives claimed to have unmasked a plot to assassinate the Foreign Ministers of France, Czechoslovakia and Rumania who are known to have busied themselves in recent weeks over the draft text of a virtual military alliance with Russia to keep Germany in check. Since assassination was the fate of French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, who first pressed the idea of this "sanitary alliance," the Swiss warning caused Geneva statesmen to surround themselves this week as never before with bodyguards...
...Mayor Kelly's South Side home his three adopted children (Twins Patricia and Joseph, 8, and Stephen, 4). celebrated their father's victory by coming down with measles. Father Kelly could not stay home to watch them. He was off to Washington to draw a draft on his new political prestige, to ask $265,000,000 of the $4,880,000,000 provided by the new relief bill in order to give Chicago a new airport, parks, elevated highways, sewers...
...similar tale circulated by a white servant girl caused the colonists to burn 14 Negroes "alive with a slow fire until dead and consumed to ashes," hang 18 more. Refusing to be impressed into the war to make Negroes free, shanty Irishmen in 1863 staged the historic "Draft Riots," featured by the burning of a Negro orphanage at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue, and the sacking of an early Negro quarter (now Chinatown). In 1900 a policeman allegedly arresting a Negro woman for soliciting started another race riot...
Late last year TIME asked two young members of the University of Minnesota faculty, Alvin C. Eurich and Elmo C. Wilson, to draft a current affairs test for use in schools and colleges. Testmakers Eurich and Wilson, old hands with an interrogation mark, based their questions on stories which were thoroughly covered by both TIME and U. S. newspapers between Sept. 1, 1934 and Jan. 15, 1935. Just in time for mid-years the examination was completed. Some 60,000 students have tested their knowledge on it. That TIME readers may test theirs, the Eurich-Wilson questionnaire is reprinted...
...three pedagogs Chancellor Bowman made an impression which stayed with them through weeks of investigating, months of writing their report. To the final draft of that report the three men last week signed their names: Professor Ralph E. Himstead of Syracuse; Professor James B. Bullitt of North Carolina; Professor Albert Benedict Wolfe of Ohio State. Then they sent a copy to Chancellor Bowman "for factual correction," and with it a letter asking him to keep the report confidential until they should publish it late in March...