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First came the report of the Royal Commission under Sir John Simon (TIME, June 30, 1930). That was largely junked after the unexpected declaration of India's reigning princes at the First India Round Table Conference that they were willing to enter an All-India Federation with the plebeian native states (TIME, Dec. 1, 1930). Two more India Round Table Conferences left up in the air the crux of the whole business: Saint Gandhi's demand for "Dominion Status" (TIME, Jan. 2, 1933). Finally the National Government smothered India's aspiration to rank beside Canada with...
Winsauer heads the list of ushers for the event; others on the committee will include John E. Barnet 4G, Shaun Kelly. Jr. '36, Douglas C. Scott '35, and Robert E. Simon...
...balanced the budget last month, and, with Foreign Minister Henri Jaspar, rallied all the gold bloc countries to stand together at the Brussels Conference (TIME, Oct. 29). In the end, however, Dr. Sap's economies, imposed on each and every Minister, made him the Cabinet's Simon Legree. When, having already cut civil servants' salaries 24%, Dr. Sap insisted last week that he must cut them 5% more, the Cabinet resigned amid rumors that "the Ministers were divided between the wisdom of inflation or further deflation...
Hope of conquering infantile paralysis first arose in 1910 when Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research discovered the virus which causes the disease. He found it in the mucous membranes of the nose and throat, and suspected that it might exist along the olfactory nerve. Not until last year did Dr. Maurice Brodie of Manhattan and Dr. Arthur Roland Elvidge of McGill University discover that the virus did travel up the olfactory nerve to the brain, then to the spine...
Though shrewd Publishers Simon & Schuster announce it as their "sincere belief" that no such personal and intimate autobiography has been written since Rousseau's Confessions, many a plain reader will feel that Powys has dodged the point. His text is excellent: "If all the persons who wrote autobiographies would dare to put down the things that in their life have actually caused them their most intense misery, it would be a much greater boon than all these testy justifications of public actions." But, like many a sermon, Author Powys' is more exhibitionistic than instructive, and it goes...