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Arrow, published by an anonymous group of journalists of whom the leader is grey-haired, pink-faced Fred Voigt, one of the ablest newspapermen in England and a close friend of Sir Robert Vansittart, famed Foreign Office careerist. Printed on a hand press in an Old Gloucester Street basement, Arrow comes out on Friday, helps to fill the weekend gap in British news. Its policy: ''England must be strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dear German Reader | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...opposition devoted its annual convention almost exclusively to family quarrels last week, the British Left was scarcely less ineffectual. Biggest issue at the Labor Party Congress at Southport was the expulsion of Sir Stafford Cripps, tall, thin, wealthy, inconsistent, indiscreet ''Red Squire" of Filkins, Labor's ablest parliamentary debater and leader of Labor's intellectual leftwing. Last January Sir Stafford proposed a Popular Front of Laborites, Communists, Liberals, anti-Chamberlain Conservatives, broke Party discipline when he sent out his proposals to Labor Party offices after Labor's executive committee rejected it. Said the London Daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cripps Cropped | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...same efficient way as he had handled Cincinnati's flood as its City Manager, but he has so far kindled no fire among faculty or students. Frank Porter Graham, 52, is called "Mr. Frank" by his students at the University of North Carolina. Generally rated the ablest U. S. State university president, he has helped make North Carolina tops in the South. He fought in the trenches during the World War, still fights with the Legislature and utility interests that attempt to silence his liberal professors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: TEN TYPICAL AND ATYPICAL COLLEGE PRESIDENTS | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Progressive educators rate Quaker, co-educational Swarthmore as the No. 1 U. S. college, Frank Aydelotte as the ablest U. S. college president. Little Swarthmore aspires to cultivate its students' emotions and morals as well as their minds, is a good all around institution. Aydelotte, 58, a onetime Rhodes scholar, golfs in the low 80s, is a whiz at money raising, loved by his students, a good all around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: TEN TYPICAL AND ATYPICAL COLLEGE PRESIDENTS | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...congregations (TIME, Feb. 6). As Moderator of the Presbyterian Church the Assembly elected a man from the foreign mission field, where the urge toward church unity is strongest. Dr. Sam Higginbottom, third layman to head the Church, is president of India's Allahabad Christian College, and rated the ablest agricultural missionary in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bundle, No Bundle | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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