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Under the Root formula the U. S. could "naturally" quit the Court whenever its objection to an advisory opinion was overruled. Explained President Hoover last week: "The provisions free us from any entanglements in the diplomacy of other nations. We cannot be summoned before this Court. We can seek its services by agreement with other nations. These protocols permit our withdrawal from the Court at any time without reproach or ill-will." The World Court protocols were not welcome in the Senate at this short and crowded session because the parliamentary situation there was already complicated enough without them...
Arguments by many another great statesman were equally weasled. In the midst of the proceedings Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov quit the Commission last month, denounced Mr. Gibson and the rest as "hypocrites bent on conserving the armaments of their countries!" flounced off to Milan for a secret talk with Italy's Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, finally returned to Moscow leaving Russia represented at Geneva by pensive, hyperintellectual Anatoliy Lunacharsky. (He. as Soviet Commissar of Education, released an "educational film" in which talented Mme Lunacharsky played the role of the seduced heroine...
...third time in his life he had "gone to the movies." What he saw-D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation-made his eyes pop, his heart thump. An industry doing things like that, he decided, was the place for him. So Reporter Martin Quigley quit his job with the Chicago evening Post and two months later began publishing the Exhibitors Herald. After absorbing two competitors, Motography, Motion Picture World, the magazine became the potent Exhibitors Herald-World and Publisher Quigley was a millionaire, with a summer home in Connecticut, cabin cruiser, polo ponies. By his acquired...
...team was losing, annoyed because Jones regarded as unethical the deceptions practiced in other colleges to produce winning teams. With William Roper, equally idealistic Princeton coach, he agreed that neither would scout the other's teams. In 1925 and 1926 when he had bad teams, Jones refused to quit. He held on till 1927, when his team beat Brown, Army, Dartmouth, Maryland, Princeton, Harvard. Yale football graduates remember with a smile one of his characteristic dressing room before-the-game orations: "You stand by me. and I'll stand...
However, Bishop Manning was not without defenders. Said Ernest Vincent Shayler, P. E. Bishop of Nebraska, England-born (like Bishop Manning): "If some New York papers would quit Bishop-baiting, if some Episcopal clergy would quit ecclesiastical rowdyism and some Protestant ministers cease strife-making, you would have a better atmosphere in New York...