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Star Delegations, The 1,000 delegates felt keenest interest last week in two delegations, composed (as to important delegates) respectively of 6 U. S. representatives and 16 Soviet Russians. Never before has the U. S. sent a "delegation" (as distinguished from mere "observers") to a conference called by the League; and not since the Lausanne Conference of 1923, when a Soviet envoy was murdered on Swiss soil, has "Red Russia" sent delegates of any kind into Switzerland...
...armies. This is quite untrue. The most effective chemical used during the World War was phosphorous, and it was used primarily for burning. Phosphorous was used to burn men, houses, and forests. In addition, however, it made a wonderful smoke-screen through which, not even those with the keenest eyes could see." Using an illustration General Fries said. "Imagine trying to shoot ducks through a dense fog, and you have the same problem that confronted the attacking army trying to penetrate through a phosphorous cloud...
...birthday last week, and even the Hearst feature service found that there was news in the famed New England poet's son who, at 86, has the keenest and busiest mind in the Supreme Court. "Work keeps me young," said Justice Holmes. "If I should quit, I would die." It has been wisely said that Plato dreamed of such men as this when he chose scholars and philosophers, tried by the world and by age, to govern his ideal Republic...
...Keenest interest as to the sex of the forthcoming imperial infant was felt by the heir apparent, Prince Chichibu, eldest brother of the Emperor Hirohito. Should the Empress give birth to a girl, as she did at her first accouchement (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925), Prince Chichibu must remain in Japan, ready to assume the Throne immediately, should Death come to the Emperor...
...Keenest interest in his departure was felt last week by virile lads in the mid-teens who had just read a newly published book: Walter Garvin In Mexico, A Book For Boys, by Gen. Smedley D. Butler and Lieut. Arthur J. Burks (Dorranee...