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Four days after Christmas last year President Hoover plucked Mr. Davis from his office at No. 48 Wall Street, sent him to Geneva as one of the two U. S. Democratic delegates to La Conference pour la Limitation et pour la Reduction des Armaments. The Conference has proved disappointing, but not Democrat Davis. He has become indispensable to the President, golfing ably with Sir John Simon in England, slipping over to Paris for a quiet aperitif with Edouard Herriot, journeying to Rome for a naval parley with Benito Mussolini. Precisely because the U.S. Press has not yet caught up with...
...course, when a man is out only "pour le sport" he turns House and Intramural athletics where there are no training rules and for which he can come out whenever he pleases. If however, he has gone through the long and often rigorous training and practice required in a varsity sport he feels entitled to have something to show for it. Instead of being given the numerals which he already has won. It would seem to be a very simple solution of this matter for the Athletic Association to award a minor letter with "J V" on it to these...
...subtle emanations which profoundly influence other vegetable forms. Potatoes placed in the stream either do not sprout or, if they do. the sprouts are misshapen dwarfs, more like warts than anything else. Bananas are excited to a much more rapid ripening than ordinarily. It is only elderly apples which pour out these emanations, and the effect on young unripe apples is again curious, for they are stirred to more rapid progress. They ripen more quickly. It is as though the elderly apple were "jealous of youth, and would destroy...
Again, Woodrow Wilson. Meanwhile the disarmament game of Words, Words, Words began again at Geneva, though one of the players (Germany) sulked and refused to sit in at La Conference pour la Limitation et pour la Réduction des Armaments (TIME...
...while Fascists yelled their war cries in front of the Reichstag, Grandmother Zetkin was carried in the back door on a stretcher, lifted to her feet. Leaning on a heavy cane, she advanced, flanked on either side by a big-hipped Amazonian Red. Pain and fatigue made perspiration pour down the sunken cheeks of Clara Zetkin but her old eyes flashed. "I shall do my duty in strict accordance with the rules of antiquated parliamentarianism," she gasped, "because it is my duty to the German proletariat...