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...delegation to the London Economic Conference whiled away many a happy shipboard hour dancing with the delegation's young stenographers. When President Roosevelt made Friend Bullitt first U. S. Ambassador to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Friend Wiley went along as Counselor of Embassy. Then came a rift in the diplomatic comradeship. Counselor Wiley married a Polish sculptress named Irene Baruch. Relations between Ambassador and Counselor soon cooled to the extent that John Wiley was transferred to Antwerp as Consul General. But the distress of Ambassador Bullitt was not so easily ended. There was not a single...
...Catherine of Russia. It was a picture characterized by a peculiar violence of background and a remarkable tedium of pace. By making a much better picture on the same subject, Elisabeth Bergner rubbed the first bloom off the von Sternberg-Dietrich prestige. Still there was no hint of rift until with dramatic abruptness von Sternberg told an Associated Press reporter he was going to break with Dietrich. He said he had done all he could to further her career, that he considered he would hinder her development. Dietrich read the story in the press. For two days...
...best of their abilities, they can prove their public spiritedness, and make the necessary readjustments quickly and efficiently. If they refuse to cooperate and appeal to the shades of Calvin Coolidge to keep the future away from their doors, they will arouse class antagonism and cause a serious rift in the community...
Skyways to a Jungle Laboratory is the travel diary kept by Mrs. Crile of the expedition of her husband, Dr. George Crile, famed U. S. surgeon [TIME, Oct. 19], to Maji Moto Camp in the Great Rift Valley of Tanganyika. Writing little of the scientific achievements of the camp, Mrs. Crile gives good descriptions of Africa from the air, long accounts of the hunting exploits of the members of the party, illustrates her book with 51 good but conventional photographs...
Last week President Adolph Hirschberg of Philadelphia's Central Labor Union rose to plead: "Don't take the attitude that officers of the A. F. of L. are enemies of the laboring man. Much damage has been caused . . . [by] this rift in the ranks." Snapped Yale Professor Jerome Davis: "The A. F. of L. should never have suspended [Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization] without putting the question to the whole membership. . . ." (TIME, Aug. 17). Promptly passed by a unanimous vote was a resolution condemning the A. F. of L.'s treatment of Miner Lewis, endorsing...