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...seats to vote Churchillwise that an official count would have gravely embarrassed Chamberlainians, and the Speaker hastily declared the amendment adopted without a vote. Generally in Jewish and Arab circles this putting of Palestine partition on ice until the League of Nations Council can get around to it next autumn was greeted "with relief...
...hours later Serbia's beloved Patriarch expired. In no mood to wait until next autumn, when the Concordat goes for ratification to the Senate. Orthodox zealots attacked two Skupshtina members who had voted for ratification. Police rescued them but their clothes were in shreds...
...February, when foreclosure proceedings were already well under way, it was revealed that Slip Madigan had received directly the check for $38,324.15 which New York's Fordham University gave St. Mary's after their Rams beat the Gaels 7-to-6 in Manhattan last autumn. Since Slip Madigan had been owed $21,690 from the 1934 and 1935 seasons, the Fordham check looked almost like a settlement. At the time the president of the college, Brother Albert, explained: "I paid Mr. Madigan because I recognized a just debt and because I recognize that he has brought certain...
...Whiffenpoof Song is a parody of Kipling's Gentlemen Rankers, whose refrain it uses almost intact. Not everyone knows that the score was written by an Amherst man, the late Tod Galloway, who put a lot of Kipling to music, or that the words date from the autumn of 1909 when cadaverous Meade Minnigerode, since famed as the author of The Son of Marie Antoinette, The Magnificent Comedy, and George Pomeroy composed them for the delectation of a drinking group formed the spring before and called the Whiffenpoofs. G. Schirmer, Inc. contest that they got the rights...
...Awaiting fine traffic from bumper crops in its territory this autumn, Illinois Central R. R. showed net operating income of $6,841,000 for the first half against $5,942,000 in the same six months last year...