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Today France has a tall, keen, young Premier who goes to Scotland every season to shoot grouse. This trivial fact was of vast, imponderable weight last week. It enabled tall Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin to rank as a gentleman and a sportsman in the eyes of the tall Britons with whom he had come to negotiate. They got on famously-so well, indeed, that the British Cabinet voluntarily sacrificed their sacrosanct week end, worked Saturday and Sunday to oblige Premier Flandin and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval. Normally in London any statesman rash enough to suggest that the Government forego...
Last week for the first time President Roosevelt took sides in the running scrimmage between the newspaper publishers of the land and their editorial employes organized as the American Newspaper Guild. The specific case in which he lined up with the publishers was, in itself, trivial but its implication as a matter of national policy cast a long significant shadow into the future...
Hiram Johnson, of California made an impassioned plea in the Senate the other day asking his colleagues to reject entrance into the World Court. His closing words must have touched deeply those who heard him and understood: "This is no trivial policy upon which we are asked to act; this is the American policy which comes to us today. It is the American policy that means either that which we love in the future or that which we may fear in the future. (sic) We can, and we ought to be, Americans. The only appeal that I make...
...only to established corporations or their successors. Fresh promotions, which have never been burdened by the law because they have no corporate history, will continue to use the strict old form. But no longer is it necessary for an old-line company to describe in painful detail every last trivial law suit, every last patent, every last plant built and abandoned years...
...acting were insufficient, the story would become trivial. More specifically, any type of adventure story demands a certain type of character for its roles with the result that individual interpretations must be thrown into the discard. The struggle of the colonel, Sir Guy Standing, between devotion to the army and love for his son lends coherence to the plot. Richard Cromwell brings to the role of the son a sincerity which overcomes the unpleasant aspect of his part, a sufficient proof of his ability. The reactions of Gary Cooper as the rebellious officer and Franchot Tone as the Blues replacement...