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...fathers and a godfather were concerned. Thereby hung a tale, unrevealed until last week, of how a handsome apology enabled great concord to grow out of the furious spat in Geneva last May between glacial, correct British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon and humorous, mercurial French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. Knowing nothing of Sir John's deep sorrow at his childless second marriage,* M. Barthou lapsed accidentally into offering a deadly insult to Sir John. The issue was a plan not devised by the Briton but to which he had given approval. "It seems, Sir John," flashed M. Barthou, "that...
Publisher Richard Simon: Drag is a wonderful thing - make use of it. ... The publishing business is hard. In the last ten years I have received applications personally from at least 5,000 young men, and I haven't given a job to one of them...
Wheeonk, blared the bugle of Dr. Walter Baker. The band struck up the "Sidewalks of New York." Cornell-Rockefeller Hospitals' entry, Bronx Cheer (by Simple Simon, out of the East River), was coming into the ring. The white-trousered, white-skirted crowd pressed closer, gabbled excitedly. Was it true that the Accident Ward had given the Obstetrical Clinic's Lucky Miss (by Chance, out of Wedlock) a shot of morphine? The band struck up "La Marseillaise." Pourquoi Pas, entered by a young French nurse, was coming in. Over by the administration building two doctor-bookies gathered...
...balances of foreign exchange as to have set up "a hidden reserve equal to many times the amount of interest on the Dawes and Young loans" lately repudiated by Dr. Schacht (TIME, June 25). The British note, probably the stiffest yet signed by Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, accused the Reichsbank by inference of falsifying its statistics and branded Dr. Schacht as a willful saboteur of German credit. "The policy of Germany," Sir John charged, "is to claim that no foreign exchange resources are available to meet the service on her loans, and then to apply resources which should have...
...Rogers V. Scudder of St. Louis, Mo.; Arnold M. Seligmen of Newton Upper Falls, Mass.; Samuel Sonenfield of Lake wood, Ohio; Gordon C. Streeter of Stoningoton, Conn.; Cyrus L. Sulzberger of New York, N. Y.; Burton H. Tarplin of Brookline, Mass.; Robert J. Towne of Waterton, Mass.; Simon L. Weker of East Boston, Mass.; David Weld of Huntington, L. I., N. Y.; Henry S., Wiley of Grosse Pointe Village, Mich