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Cocktails & Sanctions. Ever since President Woodrow Wilson's ideals congealed into the League of Nations its best friends have rated it brittle. Fearing their cherished instrument would snap like an icicle if used against a Great Power, League statesmen have pussyfooted for 15 long years. They let Poland conquer a good third of Lithuania and seize its then capital Vilna, which Poland still holds. They let Japan master four rich Chinese provinces. No sanctions were imposed to stop bloodshed between Bolivia and Paraguay. Though the League's own charter or Covenant is part of the Treaty of Versailles...
Bache & Benefits. "We advise against snap judgment in disposing of any good utility stocks . . ." wrote J. S. Bache & Co., Manhattan brokers, last week. "It should be recalled that the dissolution of the Standard Oil Co., the American Tobacco Co. and various others by the Government, in the final analysis, showed substantial increases in the value of the securities composing those units." And there were others up & down the land who took an equally cheerful view of the future of utilities. Federal Power Commissioner Basil Manly predicted that, with the air cleared by the passage of the bill, utilities would spend...
...carefully planned schedule must anticipate the requirements of concentration and distribution. Moreover, while there is no occasion for a "snap" program, Freshmen who bravely plunge into five difficult courses usually come to grief...
With the zero snap of an Argentine winter in the air last week, Buenos Aires correspondents shivered over a decree from big, harsh, faultlessly attired President Agustin P. Justo which seemed likely to cost many of them their jobs. The President's skin is tissue-thin. In a fury last year he ripped out an order to "sue the Government of the United States for reparations for besmirching Argentineans' reputations!" after the U. S. Senate's munitions probe charged the acceptance of bribes by Argentine Army munitions buyers (TIME, Oct. 8). Scared underlings finally broke to General Justo the extreme...
...found a perfect place to hide from his 6-year-old sister in a game of hide-&-seek. In a vacant apartment across the hall he had found an abandoned icebox, removed the shelves and climbed in, slamming the door behind him. On the outside, the strong snap-lock fell into place. John was surrounded on six sides by unbroken zinc. Police of five states searched a day for him. Then John Carpenter Sr. found the grimy mark of a boy's hand on the icebox door, his son's suffocated body...