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This clearly indicated that such "other countries" as Belgium and Portugal are in for much diplomatic unpleasantness from now on, but the Prime Minister also spoke in such a way as to hint that Britain and France will try to coax the colonial issue into much the same state of interminable negotiation as Nonintervention in Spain (TIME, Nov. 15 et ante). Off the record, nearly every British or Continental statesman will today admit that so-called Non-intervention has been a sorry process of seeing that Spain's civil war is dragged out as long as possible, thus avoiding...
...House. Waiting for their own Farm Bill last week, House members had nothing to do except to go on listening to oratory on subjects ranging from neutrality to Social Security. Liveliest altercation of the week was caused by Labor Committee Chairman Mary Norton's attempt to coax the Wages & Hours Bill out of the Rules Committee where it has reposed since last August with a petition to discharge the Rules Committee. When Majority Leader Sam Rayburn announced that he had signed the petition, urged his confreres to do likewise, Republican Leader Bertrand Snell was inspired to a dour comment...
...Detroit, a policeman halted a car that had been careening down the street, arrested bloody Ben Ryser and irate wife. Said Mr. Ryser in court: "I tried to get her to leave a beer garden. I had to coax her away with a bottle of whiskey. She fell asleep in the car, but woke up near home and asked for a drink. ... I was trying to get home but I was relieved when the police came alongside. She had picked up a piece of glass and was stabbing at me with...
Hale and spry at 68, President Neilson walks to his office in the morning, works until one o'clock with ten minutes off for milk and crackers, works all afternoon- sometimes so long that his wife appears to coax him home. He keeps close watch on everything at Smith and as much as possible on the world outside. While Dr. Neilson is far from satisfied with education as it is, youngsters like Chicago's Hutchins who harbor elaborate and drastic schemes for reforming it, he considers "naÏve." Chief extracurricular activity in recent years has been...
Great efforts by the British League of Nations Union to coax down to the station the British Foreign Secretary, well-dressed Captain Anthony Eden, were rewarded to the extent that he sent his tactful private secretary, Mr. Oliver C. Harvey, who is always careful to dress somewhat badly. Rumpled Mr. Harvey slipped into the Pullman, spoke for a few minutes to Haile Selassie, then presented His Majesty to many an eminent, top-hatted friend of the League of Nations and of Ethiopia, including Economist Sir Walter Thomas Layton and Lord Allen of Hurtwood. They pressed upon His Majesty an engraved...