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...that of low-class natives still unused to shoes." Meanwhile what of Son Tommy Bat'a? At the funeral of Father Thomas last year Uncle Jan and all the working Bat'a part ners took a solemn vow "in the presence of our dead chief to uphold his ideals: service to customers through cheap shoe production and service to fellow workers through high wages!" On the bier was laid a bunch of white roses from Thomas Bat'a's son with the inscription : "I prom ise. Tommy." Tommy has kept his promise like the crown prince...
...International Settlements met in Basle last week, elected a new president, and by their election broke their own charter. In 1930 when the B. I. S. was set up to facilitate German Reparations payments (TIME, March 25, 1929, et seq.) it was decided that its secondary purpose was to uphold and spread the gold standard throughout the world. In its charter it was expressly provided that no central bank of a country not on the gold standard should be admitted to membership...
...Chileans knew that a secret Fascist Chilean organization existed whose purpose was to uphold the Republican regime of President Alessandri. Even members of the individual cells did not know its full strength. Last week they were out in the open, in uniform, pounding down Santiago's broad Boulevard Alameda from the Jockey Club to the Plaza de Armas. Chileans grew round-eyed as they passed, line after line, 10,000 strong, to the music of 24 bands. Most of the units wore blue overalls with overseas caps and belts, country regiments were in khaki or grey. None bore arms...
...debating team closes its season tonight, facing Yale in the Lowell House Common Room at 8 o'clock to uphold the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That the international traffic in arms and munitions should be outlawed." Another team has been sent to New Haven where it will defend the negative of the same question. The winner of the Thomas Jefferson Coolidge Prize for Public Speaking, will be announced at the debate here tonight...
...high school there seems to be a wide discrepancy in the pronunciation of the President-elect's name. Some teachers insist on the first syllable pronounced like ''goose" or "rue." while others uphold the sound of "rose." I would appreciate the correct pronunciation from...