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...horizon grew still darker when ex-President Alexandre Millerand scored an overwhelming victory (520 to 175 votes) over his Socialist opponent in a by-election for a Senatorship of the Seine Department. The new Senator became, in fact as well as in name, the leader of the Union Républicaine, of which party ex-Premier Poincaré has hitherto been the Senate leader. And he lost no time in flinging the gauntlet in the face of the Herriot Government...
...National Assembly at Angora extended for a month martial law declared in the vilayets occupied by the rebellious Kurds (TIME, Mar. 9, 16). The General Staff of the Army warned the inhabitants against aiding in any manner whatsoever the revolt against the authority of the republican government. The clouds grew dense...
...many of our commonwealths," said Dean Pound, "a system of organization that grew up for the rural, pioneer, agricultural society of a century ago is inadequate to the demands of the urban industrial society of today. Here, as elsewhere, the tendency is to go on tinkering with petty details, instead of studying the matter thoroughly from the ground up. The subject ought to be approached in the same spirit in which Story approached the different, but no less difficult, problem of his day. To make a commercial law for America from the English decisions on the law merchant, the Continental...
...fallen heir to the slot machines in New York subways, the University ought tothem over to the Business School to administer. This will give the boys laboratory practice in the mismanagement of big affairs Incipient captains of industry who can make two sticks of gum grow where one grew before will be awarded their degrees "summa cum Wrigley." Then, too, the following little poem sung to any old tune that fits, can serve as the HBS national anthem...
...Oxford was noted for a bluntness of speech and an arrogance of manner that won him few close friends; but those he won were those that understood him and could appreciate the inner qualities of a remarkable character. As he tobogganed down the easy road of his life and grew just as easily to fame, not many of his enemies could refuse to admit the brilliance of his intellect. He was learned in an exceptional degree, courageous in his opinions and could do three ordinary men's work with comparative ease and great enthusiasm...