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Ever since the Ethiopian crisis, when Italian air power made Britain's base at Malta virtually untenable for her best warships and they withdrew to Egyptian waters for safety, His Majesty's Government have sought some pretext for active co-operation with the French Navy and use of its bases in the Mediterranean by the British fleet. Last week the decisions reached fortnight ago at Nyon for naval co-operation by Britain and France to patrol the Mediterranean and destroy "pirate submarines"* (TIME, Sept. 20), were whipped into final shape at Geneva by the two foreign ministers chiefly...
...race with William S. Gubelmann's square-rigger Seven Seas; by arriving in Hamilton harbor 55 sec. ahead after racing 10 days, 1 hour, 57 sec. The Seven Seas challenged on the ground that the Joseph Conrad crossed the finish line under drive of an auxiliary engine, later withdrew its protest...
First effect of this paternal visitation was felt when Homer Martin withdrew from his welcoming speech a sharp reference to the sitdowns. He was chastened when the convention in a voice vote objected to three of his pet proposals: to make the conventions biennial rather than annual, to require a 50% vote of the membership (rather than of five locals from three different States) to call special conventions, to decrease the delegate representation of big locals, i.e., the Flint and West Detroit strongholds of Unity Lieutenants Robert Travis and Walter Reuther. Mr. Martin announced that an even more high-handed...
...allowed to place an order that would interfere with her deliveries. Since Britain has the least interest of the three in Leftist Spain, and since Portugal is her oldest international friend (of some 600 years standing), this possibility lacked considerable plausibility, except in one particular. When Dictator Salazar withdrew his minister from Prague he entrusted Portuguese interests in Spain not to the British but to the Italian legation...
Next day Iturbi was downright contrite when he was jumped upon by "trash" composers, their friends and Edwin Claude Mills of the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, the latter suggesting that his potent organization might forbid Iturbi to play its copyrighted works. Hastily Iturbi withdrew his remarks about "trash," revised them to refer to "very light songs that anybody can hear any time over the air." Fearful of offending Gershwin partisans, Iturbi insisted that he had gone to see Girl Crazy no less than 14 times...