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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...royalty it was a real family party. Down to Windsor went royal Dukes and Duchesses, Princes and Princesses. Only the Duke of Gloucester, en route from Japan to Canada, failed to appear at the dinner table. Earliest bringers of birthday presents were the Queen's three grandchildren, chubby blonde "P'incess Lilybet and her cousins, Hubert and Gerald Lascelles, Princess Mary's two boys...
This point was the very core of the U. S. proposals presented in Geneva a fortnight ago by Ambassador Hugh Simons Gibson, personal friend and confidential representative of Mr. Hoover. At the earliest opportunity last week Comrade Litvinov rose and moved a resolution closely paraphrasing Mr. Gibson's speech. The delegates of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission were asked by the cheerful Russian to declare that they are engaged in promoting "drastic reduction of armaments...
...Guide" contains an account of the founding of the University, its constitution and departments, and the position in the University of the various faculties. There is an historical sketch of the Yard from its earliest beginnings to the present time. Of particular interest in the description of the fence and the various gates, and the history of the grounds and buildings. The closing section of the "Guide" is devoted to a review of student life at Harvard, athletics, journalism, clubs, Commencement, and Class...
...radio rivals to the newborn company have already appeared. Earliest of all in the field was Universal Wireless Communications Co, of Buffalo, which obtained late last year (TIME, Jan. 7) from the Federal Radio Commission a generous helping of wave lengths. This is still a dark horse; no steps have been taken to establish its proposed radio network between no U.S. cities. Postal Telegraph itself is the other rival: it has also applied to the Commission for domestic wave lengths. If radiotelephonic hookups, now a possibility, become a reality, the remaining great communications company, American Telephone & Telegraph Co., will...
...forecast what must be the reaction upon British opinion of this assertion of independence as the goal of a great political party, by persons who would claim the title of responsible politicians. Those in Great Britain who sympathize most warmly with the idea of India attaining at the earliest possible moment the status of any of the other great dominions of the Crown will find the ground cut from under their feet if British opinion ever becomes convinced that so-called dominion status was valued by India only as a stepping-stone to a complete severance of her connection with...