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Having seen all these arrangements the President rolled into his own new office?oval like the old one but, by his order, two feet wider, two feet longer. Handsomest room in the building, it is decorated with the great Presidential Seal set in the ceiling, has indirect lighting simulating daylight. All the furniture is old except a new duralumin lamp upon the desk. The President found it all just as he had planned it. Waiting in an adjoining office ?the only one in the building that is pink instead of green?to take his dictation was Private Secretary Marguerite...
Following U. S. practice, Canada's new banknotes will be smaller than heretofore, fractionally shorter and wider than current U. S. bills...
Ideally, the now Advocate should contain a combination of undergraduate opinion regarding literature and the social sciences. The fact that English is still the most popular field of concentration guarantees ample treatment of the former topic. But the wider realm of government, political science, and international relations has been slighted in the past. World-wide conditions, however, are of constantly more pressing import to the student, and that it will now have a chance to express his views in a medium expressly provided for that purpose is proof that a much-needed opportunity has at last been provided...
Though Author Werfel's scene centres on a Syrian mountain top it takes in glimpses of a wider view. In Istanbul, Berlin and Antioch German missionaries and consuls, God-fearing Moslems, meddle dangerously with high-tension wires to save a race condemned by cold policy. Not all his Turks are smoothly smiling villains nor all his Armenians embattled heroes. More than a stirring tale, a passionate defense of a persecuted minority, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh has implications that make it unwelcome in Germany...
...true that city editors are seldom known by name outside newspaper offices but I think Charley Marden of the Transcript has a wider acquaintance under that name than as Charles Marsden, which he was christened in the TIME article...