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...only recently have been withdrawn from the schools by order of Stalin, and a dispatch last week announced that the Commissariats for Education were expected to put some old Tsarist history books into Russian pupils' hands again. Reason: Soviet educators can agree that the Tsarist history books are wrong, cannot agree that any history of Russia written since the Revolution is even approximately right, and cannot find an eminent Soviet historian ready to risk his neck by writing a history which the Dictator might decide was wrong. At the bottom of this dilemma is Trotsky...
...general the conveyor belt is paralyzed five to six hours daily because of defective parts or supply of accessories." To the Gorky plant went a Pravda correspondent to investigate. For some minutes he watched the line of half-finished cars gliding serenely past. Suddenly the line stopped. "What is wrong?" he asked. Replied the foreman, "We have no horn to equip the next machine on the conveyor." After a half-hearted search lasting 30 minutes a worker dawdled up with three horns in his apron, and the line began to move once more. Said the foreman, "This sort of thing...
...bumble'' and predicted that the Prayer-Book Knight as an Imperial Defender would "outbumble Baldwin." Today Sir Thomas, like Lord Swinton, "misses a great deal of knowledge by his lack of tact," but Mrs. Baldwin is firmly convinced that he is as right as King Edward was wrong and that "character is more important than ability...
...reported considering suits for fat libel against such mass newsorgans as Paris-Soir and Corricre della Sera of Milan, which had car ried the Noyes articles after their U. S. publication. Mrs. Simpson had been discussing them with the Duke of Windsor by telephone to Enzesfeld and a wrong impression was abroad that Mrs. Simpson might be sharing in the financial returns of her relative's exploit. It was all most painful to her and the Duke - and to Mr. Noyes in the U. S. it was excruciating...
...exactly where his feet should be while waiting at the center. At the back of his book he includes the United States Playing Rules which are of inestimable benefit to the beginner who usually plays half a year or so in a blue haze of the right and wrong in squash racquets regulations...