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...have been fulfilled by any German last week. Plainly it was a trap to embarrass Leader Hitler and stamp him with the stigma of having "failed" to form a Cabinet. Realizing this, ex-Corporal Hitler decided to drop his negotiations with ex-Fieldmarshal von Hindenburg, told his aides to draft a final letter to the President and hied himself to Berlin's State Opera, enjoyed a rollicking performance of Die Meistersinger...
...save faces all around last week. Acting Chairman Viscount Sankey tried to get the Conference "down to work." Competent or incompetent, the Delegates will meet in sessions expected to be secret, will draft under British guidance a White Paper containing proposals for an Indian Constitution which will then go before the British Parliament. Knotty constitutional questions to be determined by the Conference include: The relationship between the Federal and the Provincial Units, the relative powers of Indian Legislative bodies and the British Parliament. Friends of India and Britain assume that the Constitution will be an enlightened document, according to British...
Snip-snip-snip-snip. Herbert Hoover was cutting up into paragraphs a rough draft of a campaign speech. His scissors made the only sound in the quiet of the Lincoln Study. Over a large table he spread out his cuttings. He picked up a paragraph on balancing the Budget and a paragraph on Democratic extravagance, pinned them together. Likewise joined were paragraphs on New Zealand butter and tariff protection, on Democratic campaign tactics and a newspaper clipping of 50 years ago. Thus the separate paragraphs were being woven together into an oratorical tapestry when an aide knocked on the study...
...sidetrip from Pittsburgh to Wheeling. Back in Pittsburgh Governor Roosevelt planned to make his long awaited Bonus speech. His managers predicted he would declare against immediate cash payment but propose as an alternative a system of local relief for needy veterans to be administered by the counterpart of Wartime draft boards...
...National Student Federation of the United States. This organization if for the betterment of relations between students in schools and colleges throughout the country. Somewhat later in 1926 came a report suggesting a Committee on Relations with Secondary Schools. Early in the Spring of 1926 came the final draft of the Council report favoring the subdividing of the College into several small units not unlike the Oxford and Cambridge system. Another item covered the faults of the tutorial system...