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...Senator Gerald P. Nye, whose plans for enjoying the spotlight of the munitions investigation were upset by the President's announcement of still bigger plans to take the profit out of war (TIME, Dec. 24), called, by request, at the White House. He emerged mollified. Said he: "We had a very nice visit. . . . There is evidently not the slightest reason for the theory that the President wanted to end our investigation...
...case went to the U. S. Supreme Court which (Holmes & McKenna dissenting) upheld the Associated Press. That decision, the Press has fondly believed, established for all time its property right to news. Last week a Federal district judge in Seattle, sitting in an obscure case, rudely upset that cherished notion...
...partitions, he distrib uted among his friends a secret supply of pass keys to The New Yorker offices. Once he held a noise-making contest with carpenters and plasterers by rolling metal trash baskets up & down corridors. Stenographers still remember the day when James Thurber powdered his face white, upset the telephone booth, climbed into it, pretended he was a corpse in a coffin...
...what may turn out, years hence, to be her greatest mistake. ''The fundamental issue in the naval conversations now," declared Ambassador Davis, "is essentially as follows: Is the equilibrium that was established by the system worked out in the Washington treaties to be continued or is it to be upset? The American Government stands for continuance. ... I have proposed a substantial all-around reduction in naval armaments to be effected in such a way as not to alter the relative strengths or jeopardize the security of the participating nations as established by these treaties. . . . We believe that . . . the system established...
...Because a rook upset his milk pail, St. Kevin condemned all rooks to be "sad, cawing and having the law of one another for very dismalness." But St. Kevin was far from cruel. When a blackbird laid an egg in his hand, he held it steady until it hatched...