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Delegate at Large. The only active negotiator the U. S. had on the European disarmament front last week was Norman Hezekiah Davis, a grey-haired, drawling Tennessee Democrat. On an allowance of $6 per day from his Government (and spending five times that much out of his own pocket), Mr. Davis was covering more ground more effectively than a full-fledged delegation of plenipotentiaries. A diplomat who had earned his spurs under Woodrow Wilson, he was picked by President Hoover as a U. S. delegate to the League of Nations' General Disarmament Conference which opened last February at Geneva...
...dawned. To Conant Hall Common Room at 8.15 o'clock this evening the Vagabond will go to hear from Professor Burkhard whether the Germany of Nesis and pocket cruisers remembers and heads the example of those who made the theater--greater than life...
...ascertain how much circulation the publisher wants, to enhance his reputation as a hustler by getting it, foully if necessary. A threadbare device is for the circulation manager to raise the salary of a district man. ostensibly for showing bigger sales. The district man is allowed to pocket part of the increase, but it is understood that he will refund the balance in payment for a daily allotment of papers in excess of what he can sell. He may dispose of the excess by burning or dropping it in a river...
Nansen Certificate in his pocket, the straggle-chinned little Russian wrapped himself in a thick overcoat, hurried with his wife and bodyguard to Istanbul where they boarded the steamer Praga bound for Marseilles. Objective of the Trotsky trip is Copenhagen, where Mrs. Trotsky is to undergo medical treatment and Comrade Trotsky, still leader of anti-Stalin Communists, is to deliver a lecture at the University. On shipboard Mr. Lubinsky seemed pleased but nervous. For two hours before the ship sailed from Turkey he hid in his cabin. Reporters reported that he carried a pistol. When the Praga called at Athens...
...back to Moscow. Presumably he married her. Why not?" A story has it that for the first few years of their life together Stalin, the suspicious Asiatic husband, used to lock up Nadezhda Sergeivna Alliluieva in commodious rooms every morning and spend the day with the key in his pocket. She bore him at that time two children?Vassily, today a lad of 12 and Svetlana...