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Having insulted most of Latin America and slapped the face of Britain's George V, the Senate Committee investigating the Munitions Industry hurriedly rang down its curtain amid great diplomatic confusion last September (TIME, Oct. 1). Well knowing that the U. S. munitions business was small fry compared to the foreign business, the Senators headed by North Dakota's Nye were not ready, however, to abandon such a popular subject. Last week, therefore, they rang their curtain up again and set out on a new tack. Their purpose was to avoid international complications and confine their efforts to getting something...
Again, again & again the telephone on Professor Harold Clayton Urey's littered desk rang one afternoon last week. "Thank you," said Dr. Urey to friends, students, colleagues. "Thank you....Thank you....Thank you." Someone brought into his office on Columbia University's campus a woodcock captured on a windowsill of the chemistry building. Dr. Urey suggested the bird be taken out of the city and freed in the woods. He was in a jovial mood. Word had just arrived from Stockholm that he had been awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize for Chemistry...
...Cheers rang out as Sir John Simon, taking the same line, sarcastically referred to a telegram "which was read as though it were evidence [at the U. S. Senate inquiry] asserting that no less a person than His Majesty the King had sent for the Polish Ambassador and impressed upon him the importance of purchasing whatever he wanted from an English firm." Making no explicit denial, Sir John continued "Of course, that is perfectly and entirely grotesque. All of us, to whatever party we belong, know His Majesty to be perfectly incapable of having any connection with this silly story...
...Last Day began with a 50-gun salute at 9 o'clock in the morning. Whistles blew and bells rang for a full five minutes throughout Chicago. An aerial bomb broke over the Lagoon as the day's 10,000th visitor pushed through the turnstiles. Two bombs signaled the arrival of the 20,000th. Buglers posted on "L" platforms throughout the Loop blew long & loud at high noon. Schools closed. Early in the afternoon a bewildered grey-haired grandmother was whisked off to the Administration Building where, as the 16,000,000th visitor of 1934, she was presented with...
...Mayor of Jerusalem!" was the agitating slogan which last week rang through the Holy Land. Optimistically the Jewish Telegraphic Agency thought that "Many of the Arab leaders now favor appointment of a Jewish Mayor. . . . If a Jew is appointed Mayor of the city, he will be the first Jewish head this ancient city has had since the time of the Second Exile...