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...Briton or other member of the Commission challenged this thesis and Dr. Ito was allowed to add, still unchallenged, that by acting "in this sense the League has worked with more or less success for years...
...will be paid for his service at Geneva in drumming up votes by promoting him to "one of the five ministries which carry the rank and pay of a full Secretary of State." Eden was being mentioned as Secretary of State for Dominions, with hopes voiced that if any Briton can charm Irish Free State President Eamon de Valera into complacence, charming Captain Eden can. Though all this seemed most premature, British manufacturers of headgear known as an "Eden hat," factually reported that last week London shops abruptly stopped reordering...
Died. Crowell Hadden. 40, half-brother of the late Briton Hadden (cofounder of TIME, died 1929) ; suddenly, of pneumonia following acute appendicitis; at Glen Cove, N. Y. Since his brother's death a director of TIME Inc., Crowell Hadden went from Princeton (1917) into the War (1st Lieut., 106th Field Artillery, 27th Division), became in 1930 a partner of J. E. Aldred & Co. (New York bankers...
...Paris the great passage in Premier Laval's speech last week was considered that in which he adroitly inferred that Sir Samuel Hoare had, by implication, promised British support to France should Germany attack her or attempt to seize Austria. Cried the Frenchman with enthusiasm while the Briton looked faintly uncomfortable: "In an address elevated in its thought, where was found anew the liberal tradition of England and England's sense of the uni versal, Sir Samuel Hoare told us of the determination of the United Kingdom to adhere without reservations to the system of collective security. . . . This declaration marks...
Stothard of Cambridge won a very slow mile from Jack Scheu in 4:26.4, the Crimson captain making a desperate bid on the last lap but failing to overtake the fleet Briton. Koith Brown, lanky aerial artist from New Haven, set a new meet record in the pole vault when he cleared the high stands at 14 feet...