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...toast list, Manuel Quezon maintained a dignified silence. But the Filipino-owned Philippines Herald angrily took up his cause, snorted: ''A diplomatic crisis is brewing. Commonwealth dignitaries may decline to attend consular parties. . . . Used to high-riding the political prairies of Indiana with State troops at his beck, McNutt must feel suffocated in the close quarters the Philippine Independence Act allows him. If he conceives it his duty to enlarge American authority in the Philippines despite growing Filipino autonomy, he is certain to encounter difficulties. If his recent activities are a gauge of his attitude, we expect many...
...with elegant Prince-Regent Paul who already has an understanding with Italy. Hungary, to the north of Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria to the east, are already in the Italian bag. Rumania is next on the list for conversion by Missionary Mussolini. Significantly Poland's pro-Nazi Foreign Minister Joseph Beck three weeks ago was in the Rumanian capital to explain that "Rumania is necessary to Poland's security because of Russia's nearness." Foreign Minister Beck, in earnest conversations with King Carol, sought to renew and put teeth into the 1921 Polish-Rumanian Treaty. If he succeeded...
...151who tries to solve a murder by making the twelve possible suspects hold hands in the dark. Things look bad for Nell O'Neill (Madge Evans) when John Wales (Henry Daniell) is stabbed at the seance, but clear up when, at the next psychic session, Dick Crosby (Thomas Beck) uses lampblack to prove that naughty Dr. Mason (Charles Trowbridge) was not holding hands. The Thirteenth Chair still saves a septuagenarian shiver for the moment when Madame La Grange reveals the murder knife stuck in the ceiling, but as dramaturgy it is more convincingly dead than any of Dr. Mason...
Editorial Board: Richard T. Davis '38. R. Stuart Hoyt '40, and James Tobin '39. Business Board: David Beck '38, Sheldon Ekman '39, Joseph E. Jones '38, C. Hamilton Luther '40, William A. McFadden '39, sherman J. Maisel '39, Royal S. Schaaf '39, and David S. Stern...
...I.L.A. backing the cannery strike, shut down the entire port of Stockton. Dave Beck swore his teamsters would move the cargo. It did not move, however, even by rail, for warehousemen refused to help load...