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...fortress!"-] Battle of Ballots. Result of the Chancellor's "fighting speech" was to consolidate and fire with new loyalty the Centrist-Socialist parties group which he leads -notwithstanding that the speech contained a qualifying statement that Germany will advance toward her aims ''solely along the path of Peace." Momentarily Herr Bruning had stolen Fascist thunder. Masterfully he pressed his advantage, maneuvered for a quick vote of confidence on a motion to adjourn the Reichstag for six weeks. Such a move would have been madness earlier in the week. But today was today. By a vote...
...principal reasons why the congress will meet here is because on August 31, 1932, there will be a total eclipse of the sun, visible in New England. The path of the totality will start near the Hudson Bay, curve down through New Hampshire and Maine and then go over Cape Cod disappearing a few hundred miles off shore in the Atlantic...
...alumni are confronted with a pretty serious problem. The difficulty lies in the fact that there is really nothing at Yale now to induce a man to stay there. Realizing the obstacles that lay in their path the graduates resorted to attrition; they did not care to antagonize the boys, so they appealed to the "old time Yale spirit" that lies latent in every student's bosom. They want to build up a "binding tradition" a sort of "every week is stay at home week at Yale" spirit. This ought to do it, if anything will. The "week end tradition...
When he delivered himself of a sage maiden address before the Oxford Union last spring (TIME, Mar. 3), young Mr. Churchill?named for his grandfather Lord Randolph Churchill (1849-95), fiery Conservative orator?was conscious that he was making his first steps along the path to statesmanship. Capitalizing his youth rather than allowing it to be a handicap to him, as did the younger Pitt and the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, young Mr. Churchill is visiting the U. S. on a lecture tour. Whig-Clio Hall at Princeton was his first engagement. There he gave his address "The British...
...forth between two semicircular hollow plates by means of alternating currents of 10,000 volts and a magnetic field. As they continue in a spiral motion they gather speed, finally shoot out the end of the tube, minute bullets capable of battering the nucleus of any atom in their path, perhaps of changing it into atomic energy which scientists have long talked about. Cosmic Rays. Although some scientists have thought that the "cosmic rays" which bombard the earth might be high-speed electrons, recent investigations have indicated that they are ether waves of very high frequencies, reported Robert Andrews Millikan...