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...much sword-rattling testimony disturbed treaty Senators. The free-&-easy way in which admirals publicly criticized U. S. diplomacy and discussed a possible war with Japan, prompted the New York World to flare up as follows: "It is high time somebody in authority told those admirals where they get off. . . . The spectacle . . . is shocking beyond words." The New York Herald Tribune flayed its rival's "petulant and unpatriotic attacks" upon the Navy and "Captain" Johnson rushed to the admiral's defense...
With a sack inside his vest, wily jack-the-giant-killer climbed the beanstalk and banqueted competitively with the Giant. While giant ate, Jack stuffed sack instead of stomach. Then, with a sword, he disgorged the sack's contents. Not to be outdone, the giant ripped himself open, died...
...have been asked for July will largely determine its career. Germany holds the deciding cards, Should Germany effectively cooperate with France, Europe would come under Franco-German control, London would see its century-old balance of power slip through its fingers, and Mussolini could cry vainly for fanfares and sword-play. If Germany refuses to see this organization within the League, the main object of the Union would be lost...
Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem is Prince Oscar, fifth son of Wilhelm II. Echoing his father's fervor, he cried in ringing tones to a gathering in Berlin of German princelings: "If you cannot serve with the Sword, serve with the Cross...
...Director Valentiner had paid only $400, at an auction of part of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum's great Havemeyer Collection (TIME, March 24). It had been labeled "School of Titian," but Director Valentiner, observing the sensitively rendered fingers of the Doge's hand upon his sword hilt, gambled $400 and had an expert scrape off layers of 30-year-old overpaint. In his judgment that this was a real work of Titian he was soon joined by no less a master of the genuine picture market than Sir Joseph Duveen...