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...remotest degree to attach to the university at Cambridge. The victory will merely be a sportsmanlike achievement of a group of young amateurs who happen to attend classes there and enjoy the exercise. Cheers, if any, will be for the good old game of football, without the whisper of a hint that Harvard is involved...
...complete repudiation of all reparations payments, German reparation's bonds sold off last week on all exchanges, declining in London to a figure representing an 11% discount. In Wall Street a recession of some five points in common stocks was charged off by fiscal writers to a whisper among the knowing that "there's revolution in Germany right now, but the censor's sitting on the lid." All the big Berlin banks parried long distance calls from U. S., British and French clients, repeated ad nauseam the belief of their officers that a coalition of Centre" Parties...
...dubious documents, that Amtorg Trading Corp., Soviet commercial agency in the U. S., is also the secret U. S. headquarters for Soviet political propaganda and agitation (TIME, May 12). At the hearings, bomb squad detectives lined the walls. A Russian monarchist sat just behind the committee to prompt and whisper. Curious women fanned and gasped in the stuffy room...
...Damned Disgrace!" As the four tellers approached the Chair to inform the Speaker that Gandhite Brockway had been suspended by a vote of 260 to 24, Teller John Beckett, a Laborite nobody, was seen to whisper to one of his colleagues, was answered by a shake of the head...
...enlightened young men emerging from college, unwilling to immerse themselves entirely in their professions or industries, it offered repeated, cultivated doses of broadmindedness, enquired with dignified persistence into the affairs of the Commonwealth. In the editorial office sat "H. C.." smoking incessantly, speaking in a voice scarcely above a whisper, writing with the great caution and difficulty of one who must check each utterance by the most exacting dictates of his conscience. Her bert David Croly had performed the ad mirable function of providing a suitable journal for a promising decade. It is not surprising that The New Republic became...