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...fact that the Boston papers gave slight space and less editorial comment to Mr. Curley's huff is proof enough that his attitude is one of simple pettiness and his publicizing an example of unsubtle politics. Undoubtedly Mr. Curley hopes what Professor Seavey believes, that like Thompson he will be re-elected mayor of Boston next November...
...convocation accomplished nothing that it set out to do. For the King, scenting an attempt to undermine his god-given authority in a proposal that a synod be substituted for bishops, broke up the meeting in a huff, and threatened non-conformers to "harry them out of the land, or worse." Yet that Hampton Court Conference goes down in history as a high water mark for the English language, for before the King had sent the delegates packing, a plan had been drawn up for a new translation of the Bible...
...itself was in frequent session. At the Treasury, Secretary Morgenthau was meeting with such oddly assorted people as State Department experts, President George L. Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank and old Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, the onetime Treasury adviser who quit the New Deal in a huff...
...incensed Queen Wilhelmina that Her Majesty named to act as a witness in his place Professor Jan Huizinga, a Dutch writer of tart anti-Nazi tracts, under whom the Crown Princess once studied history. German correspondents who had come to cover the wedding promptly left The Hague in a huff, all except...
...M.I.T. adviser who believes in the inflexibility of economic law is Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, the Harvard seer who quit his advisory job in the Treasury in a huff over New Deal monetary policy. Last week in Washington Mr. ' Sprague held forth upon investment policy for the benefit of SEC. Pointing out that M.I.T. was deeply concerned with steady income. he observed that if appreciation were the chief object, a trust should be a one-man affair...