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Stumbling Block. Superficially the circumstances that made Henry Wallace what he is-he spent his youth helping his father make a country paper succeed-are like the circumstances that made Harry Byrd into Henry Wallace's chief stumbling block. The Byrds are a Virginia family ancient as any, but...
Poles had just dismantled their elaborate snowplow equipment for the regular spring overhaul last week when suddenly the first May blizzard since 1685 overwhelmed Central and Western Poland with from six to 20 inches of snow. Canceled were all parades on the Polish National Holiday. Prosperous Poles went Maying in...
From the long marble steps in front of Venice's railway station, little King Vittorio Emmanuele stepped into a gaily beflagged launch and chuffed off down the serpentine Grand Canal to the Palazzo Pesaro. Behind the palace's mooring poles stood Signor Mario Alvera, Podesta (Mayor) of Venice...
This setup tactful Poles called a democracy, a dictatorship and a republic in one. In Toledo last week suave Dr. Henryk Gruber, who will soon return to his Warsaw job as President of the Postal Savings Bank of Poland, hailed "our new Constitution-one of the most democratic constitutions in...
Last week Dr. Lawrence reported that, by whirling deutons (heavy hydrogen nuclei) between the poles of his magnet, he had induced radioactivity in copper, heaviest of the dozens of elements in which this behavior has been observed. In so doing he observed a curious effect which he could only interpret...