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...Geneva officials of the Permanent Secretariat of the League of Nations penned with one swift stroke and three twiddles a figure which stonecutters quaintly render "M." The figure represented the number of international agreements deposited and registered, up to last week, with the League of Nations. Far and wide, diplomats remarked that for the League to have already accumulated 1,000 such documents, constituted no insignificant tribute to its prestige...
...Bailey," famed London bar of justice, the first skirmish in "Britannia's war on the Reds" (TIME, Oct. 26, Nov. 2) ended last week when twelve prominent Communists were sentenced to jail by Mr. Justice Swift, after a jury had taken but 20 minutes to find them guilty of conspiracy on three counts: 1) uttering and publishing seditious libels; 2) violating the Incitement to Mutiny Act of 1797; 3) seducing the armed forces of the Empire from their duty...
...locus of the Eastman Kodak Works, came news. An experiment had been made with aerial photography at night by flashlight. A Martin bomber 3000 feet up dropped 50 pounds of flashlight powder which was detonated in midair. Seven special cameras and a cinema machine clicked. There was a swift and powerful flash-it lasted only one-fiftieth of a second-then a tremendous explosion "rocked the buildings," "broke windows" (a few). The photographs were a "success." "Useful in war," said observers...
...Moscow's homeless children, thousands of them, parentless, homeless. . . . highwaymen, murderers and dope fiends almost before their bones have hardened. They have gnome-like, filthy faces, childish eyes, shaggy hair, long men's coats, trousers pinned up or cut and ragged. They shuffle together, taking counsel, then swift as swallows make one after another a leap at some shopman's counter, grabbing anything, running like the wind...
...that of Pope nothing more than a one-sided resemblance. The neoclassical age was preeminently an age of form. Today the fashion runs to formlessness. Instead of the stately heroic couplet, poetry now flies to the freedom of vers libre. Instead of the terse, direct prose of Swift, satire now expresses itself in the genial lunacy of Donald Ogden Stewart or Ronald Fairbank...