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...Speaker Besteiro called the exhausted Assembly to order. Had anyone any objection, he asked, to the party leader's choice of War Minister Manuel Azana to be Provisional President and Premier? No one had the slightest objection. Dead tired Deputies rested their raw throats, their heaving lungs. Amid utter silence Spain's new Chief Executive was chosen unanimously (the 50 pious clericals remaining absent). Up the steps of the Assembly Tribune at once climbed President Azana, brisk and stern. Jerking a paper from his waistcoat pocket he read out his new Cabinet...
...that the House Plan has changed Harvard physically is to utter a platitude. It takes almost equally as little insight to see how, for the sake of the House Plan, names, room prices, customs, and minor individual rights have been altered or swept aside. Instead of going to a professor's home one now visits at the 'master's lodgings;" instead of walking up the classic steps of Widener one reaches another library via a gilded lobby with a coloured ceiling...
...course in engineering drawing, which presents the material in such a rigid framework that it is extremely difficult for the student to develop flexible methods in analyzing engineering drawing problems. To be sure, a large part of drafting consists in the knowledge of conventions, but convention stressed to the utter stifling of any individual attack on a problem is hard on any man who has been tutored in the mathematical world, for example, and who is accustomed to enjoying a certain small amount of freedom in choice of methods...
...showed that on Aug. 18 the bank had capital funds (resources minus liabilities) of $32,708,000 although since Dec. 31 its deposits had shrunk some $70,000,000. Attorney Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, director of the bank and its counsel, called all the ugly rumors lies, spoke of their "utter baselessness, sheer malignancy." He said Chatham Phenix would prosecute Mr. O'Connell to ''the very limit of the law," was busy seeking other rumormongers. If convicted, Monger O'Connell may face a $1,000 fine or one year in jail...
Denmark has reduced her army and navy to minimums. Norway has done the same. Two such nations cannot very well fight. When excited Copenhagen reporters rushed to excited Danish Premier Theodore Stauning, demanding what he was going to do, the most terrifying threat he could utter was this: "If Norway attacks Danish suzerainty over Eastern Greenland, gentlemen,?if Norway attacks!?then gentlemen, Denmark will complain to the League of Nations...