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...failure to stop the war has resulted from the policy of the two nations that are most in sympathy with its ideals. France and England, mutually engaged in working out their own diplomatic salvation, have shuffied the Council about like a football, making effective sanctions or a realistic settlement equally impossible at the outset. What little prestige the League has been able to salvage cannot be credited to Paris or London...
This question should be considered by an impartial board of arbitration, instead of having the disputed fee put on the term bill in a high-handed manner without the consent of the parties billed. Dudley Hall has brought an effective settlement of the commuter problem, but don't unsettle the settlement by tactless administration. Charles B. Feibleman...
...railroad terminal at Fairbanks, Dr. Greist has nevertheless been host to several prominent U. S. citizens during the last decade. In 1926 Explorers Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, having sailed a dirigible across the North Pole, paused at Point Barrow, eleven miles north of Dr. Greist's settlement. More recently, the Lindberghs, flying to China, visited the Greists at Barrow. Last August when Flyers Wiley Post and Will Rogers crashed on a river bank 15 miles from Barrow, Dr. Greist embalmed their bodies...
Last week, speaking at a Manhattan banquet of the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Biro-Bidjan, ruddy, banjo-eyed Soviet Ambassador to the U. S. Alexander A. Troyanovsky skipped lightly across History and Political Philosophy. He quoted Abraham Lincoln as to how often one can fool all & some of the people.* He unearthed the fact that Russia's Empress Catherine II was disgusted by the American Revolution and refused to recognize the U. S. He said that the U. S. Declaration of Independence was the "first official recognition of the equality of all human beings, including...
...ratifying a "family settlement," a Baltimore court finally ended the lengthy squabble over the $28,000,000 Camel cigaret estate of Zachary Smith Reynolds, who was shot to death during a party at his Winston-Salem, N. C. home in 1932 (TIME, July 18, 1932 et seq.). To his wife of seven months, famed Torchsinger Libby Holman, whose indictment for his murder was not-prossed, the court gave $750,000. To their posthumous child, Christopher Smith Reynolds, 3, went approximately $7,000,000. To Anne Cannon Reynolds, 5, the dead tobacco heir's other child by a previous marriage...