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...London) trading was quiet among disgruntled British rubber men. They established a price which hung close to 10¼ pence per pound, virtually the equivalent of the U. S. average price of 21 cents (since one pence equals two cents). Londoners, therefore, had ample time to ponder and explain why the Stevenson Plan will be scrapped...
...shall be purely secular and Fascist, or partially religious and Roman Catholic (TIME, April 9). Round 1 of the apparent quarrel had ended when Il Duce backed up his speech by suppressing all non-Fascist youth organizations, including the Roman Catholic Boy Scouts. Therefore it behooved the Vatican to explain, last week, that no quarrel had ever existed. The task of tidying up and if possible effacing the whole incident fell to a remarkable man: Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre, editor of the news organ which speaks for the Vatican, L'Osservatore Romano (The Roman Observer...
Hailed before the Equity Council to explain why she had deserted the road company of Her Cardboard Lover, why she had lounged in Milwaukee and then returned to Manhattan while her show went westward without her, Actress Jeanne Eagels languidly stated her defense. She had been ill, she said, and had not been able to appear. The producers, Gilbert Miller and Albert Herman Woods, should have hired an understudy...
...that was news; but it did not entirely explain the large pat on the back. Keen-eyed readers found the explanation in a by-line in minute type: From the Palm Beach Daily News...
...rally a following if they had the imagination to realize how strong they are. If they chose to say that they would not endure the intolerable indignities to which they are subjected they would very soon command a new kind of respect in the nation. Nothing can excuse or explain away spinelessness. But if the educators in the public schools have to lead a double life it is not due wholly to personal timidity. It is due to a confusion of mind...