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...cynical turn of mind noted that early in the week the Shah seemed indifferent toward events in Persia. It was only after Prince Samad Khan Momtaz, the Persian Minister to France, had anxiously sought him at the Hotel Majestic, that he took what is for him an unprecedentedly firm stand. His "protest" is not expected to count for much against the "bayonets" of Reza Khan. The British Government has already given "provisional recognition" to the new "provisional government" of Persia. The Russian Government, which has been freely rumored to be behind Reza Khan, recognized the new regime by telegraph almost...
Unless it has some such significance, the issue is most unimportant; and many earnest students of foreign affairs, men like Senator Borah, have expressed the firm conviction that our adhering to the protocol creating the court can have no other purpose or effect than affording an entrance to the league. It is doubtless partly on that very account that the proposed step has had such wide support as well as opposition. If Senator Borah's view is justified in fact, the proposed policy deserves more profound consideration from American citizens than it has yet received. It is then more than...
...five hundred dollars should going precise attention. True, he is not the first to remark the trend toward folklore, toward the saga which is so patent to observing eyes. But in defining as good, as strong. "Wild Geese." Miss good, Miss Martha Ostenso's first novel he professor a firm, belief in the esoteric simple, a belief which will always continue the fundament on which drama must be built...
...Some staccato words are ripped out. There is The Office: tape, shares, toil, sex, money. The office fails and you go home with the various people whose lives centre in it. A stenographer has to forget the junior partner and marry her boyfriend. The stupid figurehead of the firm trembles, tells his wife. Clerks curse, get other jobs. The junior partner brandishes his cane, plans to run away and be a heman; slinks to his father instead. The crooked partner plans another office. Author Asch seems to know his Wall Street and hate it thoroughly. Striking as an experiment...
...Business School with the University proper, is to be named the John W. Weeks Bridge in honor of the former Secretary of War. The University and the Commonwealth have received a gift from former business associates of Secretary Weeks and those who have since been admitted to the firm of which he was one of the founders, for the building of the bridge in commemoration of his achievements in behalf of the Commonwealth and the nation...