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...Party secretary and manager of the Socialist campaign is a shy, softspoken, bespectacled 28-year-old named Clarence Senior. He was converted to Socialism when he heard Mr. Thomas lecture at the University of Kansas. Manager Senior's fondness for dancing shocks the older members of the party, called "glacial Socialists." Most of these veterans have been pushed into the back-ground at Chicago headquarters, by men around 30 recruited to rally Youth to Socialism. Ready for Nominee Thomas is a campaign itinerary which starts this month in New England, swings to the Pacific Coast and back to New York...
...vain Spanish Ambassador Salvador de Madariaga protested that the Lausanne Conference seemed to be "dictating" to the League Council. With glacial courtesy Sir John called the Spaniard "the watchdog of the constitutional rights and powers of the League," then steamrollered his own program through the Council, thus making himself Chairman of the Preparatory Commission...
...Martha's Vineyard party will study the extensive glacial deposits on that island. The nine men with Professor Billings expect to study formations along the Juniada and Susquehanna rivers in Pennsylvania...
Turksib (Amkino). Two shining steel rails creep northward under a round bonfire sun into the desert where skinny Mongolians pile up the sand to support them . . . northward into frozen ground, over mountain beds torn out by dynamite, on trestles over glacial rivers. Turksib is a translation of the Russian nickname for the Turkestan-Siberian Railroad, 897 mi. long joining Siberia and Turkestan (TIME, May 12). As Director Sergie Eisenstein dramatized modern brains coming into Russian farm country (TIME, May 19), so now Director Victor Turin tells the story of the building of the Turksib. Turin's newsreel is less interesting...
Besides these regular courses in Cambridge there is to be a special five weeks field course which will offer an opportunity for selected students to study during the summer the early Paleosoic sedimentary rocks. Pre-Cambrian crystalline rocks, and a varied assortment of glacial and post-glacial deposits in the Champlain Valley of New York and Vermont. The course is conduced by Professor A. C. Swinnerton of Antioch College...