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Geneva's International Labor Office, which tirelessly assembles labor statistics and has negotiated more than 50 treaties bettering worldwide working conditions, proved last week that not all diplomatic wangling is confined to its parent, the League of Nations. To succeed resigning Director Harold Beresford Butler of Great Britain, U. S. Delegate Robert Watt proposed his fellow countryman, social-minded, Lincolnesque John Gilbert Winant. British Delegate Joseph Hallsworth wanted Assistant Director E. J. Phelan of Eire elected. Delegate Hallsworth accused the U. S. of applying diplomatic pressure for Mr. Winant. Pointed answer of Delegate Watt: Compared to Britons, Americans...
...part of this region lies a settlement of twelve small houses dominated by a large building. The country is usually quiet on warm Spring evenings, but now an atmosphere of gayety pervades the place. Girls wearing beautiful dresses and boys trailing them are running in the direction of the parent building where a dance is progressing...
...Meanwhile at Nahant, Mass., where a sharply horizontal house is abuilding for Son No. 4 John's parent-in-law-to-be, Fiancee Anne Lindsay Clark's eleven-year-old sister Joan said of Franklin Roosevelt, to whom she refers somewhat prematurely as "Uncle Franklin": "I like him. He's smart. He said I was one American who came to Washington without a set of demands...
...Fundamentalist beliefs, but they stopped short of becoming full-fledged constituents of the rebel Church. When a handful of loyal members of the church brought suit to determine who really owned the building, the status of Collingswood Church was that of a congregation which had defied its parent body but belonged to no other organized group. And t070-odd congregations throughout the U. S. which had left the big Presbyterian Church to join the rebels, the Collingswood suit was a preview of what might happen to them. Collingswood lost, simply because Vice Chancellor Davis read what law said...
...good California fashion, 50 of them will start off on a 16-day pilgrimage promoted by the California Avocado Association, which carefully labels itself "a Cultural (non-marketing) Society." The pilgrims will go by train (price of upper berth: $205) to see Señor LeBlanc's parent avocado tree in Atlixco. There, on Easter, they will gather round the tree and listen to numerous complimentary speeches from U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels and Mexican dignitaries. They will present a gold medal to Señor LeBlanc, a gold medal to Mr. Schmidt. To the music of Mexican bands...