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Congratulations for catching a highly newsworthy item in your blurb for the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions [TIME, April 23]., Charming Missionary Woodbridge and his sober-sided backers are out to split the Presbyterian church. This plight would be news indeed to worldly cynics...
...navigation of the Congo were agreed to by the 1885 Conference of Berlin which provided freedom of navigation for all signatory powers, and prohibited differential river tolls in favor of any one. In what way Belgium had violated the constitutional rights of Oscar Chinn only he and the sober judges of the World Court knew last week...
...world Press last week went a photograph of a small, solemn baby just four months old. It was the first official portrait of His Celestial Highness Tsugu-no-Miya Akihito, Crown Prince of Japan (see cut). That this sober infant may inherit an empire as great as it is venerable, Japan's ministers last week risked once more the world's wrath...
...fulfill campaign pledges. Though he was personally responsible for the Laborite victory, though he will run the County Council, which governs all London except the tiny "City," Laborite Morrison did not become chairman of the Council last week. That duty he delegated to Henry, Baron Sneil of Plumstead, a sober-sided Laborite Peer, bachelor son of a farm laborer. While Lord Snell was putting on the chain of office, Laborite Morrison was doing even better. Slum clearance and new housing projects were prime planks in his election platform. The same day the new council took office he appointed one Lewis...
...Post Office Department he could do the job. and they had told the President. What was the matter? Had he been misled into a policy that was damaging the Administration with the country? The two generals marched out of the President's office looking very subdued and sober. After they had gone, Mr. Roosevelt dictated a letter to Secretary of War Dern. Excerpts...