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When the rumor went around six weeks ago that Leopold Stokowski was resigning from the Philadelphia Orchestra, no one took much notice because the fair-haired conductor has upset Philadelphia before with loud cries of "Wolf!" Last week the rumor became fact. Though for once he appeared to have no bone to pick with the Orchestra board, Stokowski refused a new three-year contract, announced that he would return for 20 concerts next season, but that he wanted the rest of his time for research...
Besides two penalties detected on Charlie Houghton, George Aldrich, cub defenseman, enlivened the encounter by using his fists on Chandler of Newton, who had previously upset him. Chandler answered the Challenge, but both participants were taken in custody before any further damage was done...
...Balance," he declared," is the most important requisite of a big league iceman. A player's weight must be evenly distributed over his skates or the least contact will upset...
...Deal of Hoare & Laval, which in London fortnight ago caused the resignation as British Foreign Secretary of Sir Samuel Hoare (TIME, Dec. 30). From Paris to London to sit in the Commons gallery during that fracas dashed the dynamic French Deputy who for months has been trying to upset the Laval Cabinet in order to dislodge France from the gold standard and start inflation or devaluation of the franc. Last week M. Paul Reynaud was back in Paris and, although no expert in foreign affairs, had primed himself to achieve his economic ends, if he could, by whipping up against...
Most important political upset was the removal from office of General Vincencio Pérez Soto, Governor of Zulia, by hollow-cheeked Provisional President Eleazar López Contreras. In Zulia lie practically all Venezuela's oil wells. General Pérez Soto was a politico in whom U. S., British and Dutch oil companies had largely invested. He was generally considered to be the strongest man in the country. He took his removal quietly last week-and waited...