Word: quiteness
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...Jean Chiappe had many friends. Blue-caped policemen talked of a protest meeting in sympathy, and Minister of War Jean Fabry and Finance Minister Francois Piétri quit the Cabinet. There was more to their resignation than sympathy for Jean Chiappe. As representatives of the Right they had just been reprimanded by their respective parties for accepting posts in a Daladier Cabinet. Premier Daladier was forced to replace them with Paul-Boncour in the War office and Mayor Paul Marchandeau of Rheims at the Treasury. This put the same old coalition of Socialists and Radical-Socialists back in power...
Stoutly the researchers defended their subjects as average citizens, in no sense "down-&-outers." Records of employed men tallied closely with those of the jobless. Why had they quit? After his survey of clerks trying to become executives; laborers, engineers; mechanics, accountants. Professor Paterson observed: "At the bottom of the sea . . . sharks perhaps are busy organizing the suckers into schools for the purpose of teaching them to become flying fish...
Ohio State's student body and "downtown coaches" made things too unpleasant for Coach Sam Willaman, who last week quit, signed with Western Reserve. Duquesne's Elmer Layden last week formally took over at Notre Dame, where he succeeds Heartly ("Hunk") Anderson. To succeed him as director of athletics, Duquesne got Christy Flanagan, former Notre Dame back, lately assistant coach at Navy...
...Vice President James David Mooney, in charge of exports, announced that Dr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, who quit Washington in a huff over President Roosevelt's money plans, had been retained as an adviser on foreign trade and exchange...
...Havana to sing. Harold McCormick heard her there, appreciated her if the Cubans did not, invited her to sing with the Chicago Grand Opera which he was then backing. Her debut was to be in Zaza but at rehearsal Conductor Giuseppe Gino Marinuzzi threw down his baton, threatened to quit the company. McCormick stood up for Walska, demanded that she should be allowed to sing. But in the excitement Walska disappeared. Not once did she ever sing with the Chicago Opera...