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...Treatment," In Mr. Eden's desire to spite Il Duce, the statesmen at Nyon last fortnight and at Geneva last week, invited Italy to undertake an anti-pirate patrol only in the Tyrrhenian Sea immediately adjoining Italy, while Britain and France are to patrol the Mediterranean proper. This joker invitation said in effect: "As you are the Pirate, we intend to destroy your pirate ships everywhere except in your back yard, and we invite you to destroy them there!" This seemed in London and Paris to be just about diplomacy's best joke of the year...
...Only joker in the scheme, according to Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University, who made plans known yesterday, is that the funds for the renovation are not immediately available...
...clever set represented a gaming table in perspective. Upon this table dancers costumed like cards appeared. While they were shuffled, the orchestra played a little processional. The choreography was strict and classical. Group dances, solos, finales showed the cards being played according to Hoyle. William Dollar, a slippery, mischievous Joker, upset calculations, spoiled the most promising hands, was routed finally by a Royal Flush. When the last strains of music had died away, the audience rose and cheered a composer ingenious enough to have knitted fragments by Rossini, Delibes, Strauss, Ravel, Pugni and himself into a seamless whole...
...Joker. From the U. S. standpoint any such horse trade would have peculiar significance. Under the Constitution the New Deal has not much chance of regulating by law the hours of labor in textiles. But there is no limit yet found to an Administration's power to make treaties. If a treaty can be ratified limiting the hours of textile labor to 40 hours it will help to solve the problem of Japanese competition. It will become the law of the land and thus open new possibilities for Federal regulation by treaty of labor conditions in many another...
...country places, plus the official limousines and luxuries of their owners, make the nominally small salaries of J. Stalin & Friends of no real importance, set them definitely off from Russia's masses as Mr. & Mrs. Davies are set off in the U. S. by their wealth. By a joker in the new Soviet Constitution, "The Most Democratic In The World" as Democrat Stalin's propaganda calls it (TIME, Dec. 7 et ante), many property rights have been restored to Russia's "toiling masses"-and thus to the prosperous Big Red class which today owns so much...