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President Angell, however, has had no steadier right hand than Charles Seymour. In 1927 he became University Provost, chief link between Yale's faculty and administration. The first Yale bigwig to encourage the College plan, he helped supervise the building of the colleges, became master of one of them (Berkeley), was until this year chairman of the Council of Masters. His wife (Gladys Watkins of Scranton, Pa.), his 24-year-old son Charles Jr. (Yale 1935 ), now studying art in Paris, and his daughters Elizabeth and Sarah, helped him to entertain Berkeley's boys...
...Hudson had been regarded as more likely to continue to write books with the greatest authority on the World Court than to sit on it as a Justice. His election, hailed as democratic, also marked an ebb in the Court's prestige to a level at which bigwig statesmen are not so anxious to sit in judgment at The Hague as they once were...
These activities of the Great Powers, plus the rounding out last week of the French-sponsored international embargo on arms shipments to Spain by the adherence of Germany, made Madrid Bigwig Prieto angrily conclude that evidently the White forces in Spain enjoy the covert sympathy of London and Paris as well as the candid sympathy of Rome and Berlin. "I cannot understand why France and Great Britain can be so blind!" cried Indalecio Prieto. "How can they envision with pleasure the establishment of a Fascist regime in the west end of Europe? What will they say if General Franco wins...
Under Anarchism there can be no Dictator such as Stalin, no President such as Roosevelt, in short no Bigwig. Hence Walter Duranty soon discovered and reported that all the Barcelona Anarchists he could find and interview "refused to be called leaders." Nevertheless, to Mr. Duranty's friendly eyes, the good people of Barcelona seemed to have, "with surprising ease and absence of disorder, established what is in fact if not in name a Regime of Workers...
Last December Postmaster General Farley learned that Postmistress Harrington's term was due to expire in January, listened sympathetically to a Highland Falls, N. Y. bigwig who wished to appoint a deserving female Democrat in her stead. The news leaked out. Opposition from all quarters, especially from U. S. Army officials, who considered her post inviolate from patronage, forced "General" Farley to drop his candidate. Last fortnight the Army and Navy Journal charged that James A. Farley was still out to oust Postmistress Harrington...