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...this most "official" organ turned against the Government. On every hand editors predicted that the Steeg cabinet would surely fall when it faced the Chamber of Deputies this week. Three politicians who had accepted posts under M. Steeg as under- secretaries were scared out, resigned, explaining lamely that "the complexion of the cabinet was not exactly as at first thought...
...Republican power was temporarily strengthened during the week when Democrat John Francis Quayle of New York suddenly died. A Democrat was certain to be elected to the vacancy. Nevertheless, this death reminded both parties that many an accident may happen before the 72nd Congress meets, to alter its political complexion, its significance. Between Dec. 1, 1929 to Dec. 1, 1930, Death's delegation in the House...
...complexion and features of Haile Selassie, or Power of Trinity, resemble those of a Spanish Jew. But throughout the world last week Negro newsorgans hailed him as their own, recalled the honors conferred by His Majesty on "The Black Eagle of Harlem," Colonel Hubert Julian, "The Negro Lindbergh" (see cut).* Matter of fact the people of Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, are of every color from coal black through tawny brown to olive, include many non-Afric races. Centuries ago scornful Arabs nicknamed them Abyssinians ("mixed peoples"). Today members of the Royal House are strongly Semitized, claim descent from Hebrew King Solomon...
...four inch dais in Lowell House has no sinister complexion. It is a gesture of humility. Terraces of greater or less elevation are used everywhere in the settings of domestic, public, and even agricultural improvements. Ostentation is symbolized by the reverse...
...names of 66 Indian delegates of varying physical and political complexion who have accepted invitations to Britain's October Round Table Conference on India were announced in London last week. Notably absent was the name of any follower of St. Gandhi, any member of his Indian National Congress. The Nationalist leaders, realizing that adoption of any part of their program by the Round Table Conference is virtually impossible, primly withstood British blandishment, refused to attend...