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...grow a beard. Among his hirsute colleagues the rise of this "boy" is considered almost a scandal. In Basle, Switzerland, last week the august board of the new Bank for International Settlements (B. I. S.), formed as "The Cash Register of German Reparations" (TIME, March 25, 1929, et seq.), solemnly met and all but unanimously elected Beardless Pierre Quesnay to be general manager of the bank...
Riots and demonstrations throughout India last week showed that the spreading ripple of St. Gandhi's movement for independence (TIME, March 24, et seq.) has widened to reach Peshawar near the remote Afghan frontier...
...Retrial of $500,000 damage (by slander) suit against Sir Joseph Duveen (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929 et seq.) in Manhattan...
Ever since slack-chinned Prince Nicholas of Rumania became a chronic reckless driver (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929, et seq.), he has been a favorite subject for speculative diagnosis with the Viennese psychiatrists, who gather nightly to drink coffee with whipped cream at the Cafe Siller on the Franz Josef Quai. Many and ingenious have been the explanations of why H. R. H. groin-kicked the driver of a taxi with which he had collided (TIME, Dec. 30). First Viennese psychiatrist to issue his ideas to the press was Dr. Erwin Wexburg...
...Prince Nicholas," said Psychiatrist Wexburg last week, "is the victim of a frustrated longing for power. It was not until his brother Carol's dramatic renunciation of the throne [TIME, Jan. 11, 1926 et seq.] that Nicholas began showing signs of nervous irascibility. His brother's lapse opened the door to power, but of limited power only. Before, Nicholas was a minor prince; now he is a member of the Regency Council, a great step forward; but when Carol's son King Mihai comes of age Nicholas will be completely eclipsed. The sudden feeling of limited power...