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Month ago the Petrol Diplomat reached Teheran and immediately began a series of secret conferences with the Shah. Be fore his arrival the League of Nations, through Dr. Eduard Benes, "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," had laid the groundwork for a new agreement (TIME, Feb. 13). Last week came the announcement of a preliminary agreement between Sir John and Persia's Shah: Anglo-Persian will in future pay the Persian Government 21% royalties instead of 16% and will turn over 2½% of the profits of its subsidiaries. Persia on its part will grant the com pany...
...Along with the groundwork study of business mainly in isolation, now twenty-four years in process, we have during the last ten years been developing our Faculty for the larger problem of studying business in its relationships to other social activities. We are now prepared to organize a third year of study and instruction for selected graduates who are both equipped for and interested in this type of problem. This development was suggested in my report for the academic year 1930-31. Fortunately, while the funds required, although comparatively small in amount, are not immediately available, the lessons...
Program Speech. Thundered Adolf Hitler over Germany's State Radio: "Fourteen years of Marxism have ruined Germany! One year of Bolshevism would destroy Germany! . . . The National Government will firmly protect Christianity* as the groundwork of our entire morality. . . . The National Government will carry out the great work of reorganizing the economic life of our people by means of two great four-year plans: 1) salvation of the German farmer, with the object of maintaining the nourishment and therewith the vital basis of the nation; and 2) salvation of the German worker by a powerful and comprehensive attack on unemployment...
...faced, stubbly-mustached 59-year-old Harvard philosopher who chairmanned the Commission. No great orator, he spoke intensely, earnestly. A cool-minded stalker of religion in his books (best-known: The Meaning of God in Human Experience), Dr. Hocking wrote the first four chapters of Re-Thinking Missions, the groundwork of the whole discussion. Last week he got his laugh when he was asked to answer somebody's question: "If it be accepted that a culture, as distinguished from a mood or a tendency, must be informed by one great unifying conception, can it be said, with any degree...
...unChristian" attitude Brother Entzminger was censured from the platform. Back to their churchly muttons went the Fundamentalists last week, after organizing for Ohio their 7th state organization, planning a World Bible Conference and revival campaign for Chicago during the World's Fair next year, and laying the groundwork...