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...Named for the family of the late great Charles Frederick Crisp, Speaker of the House of Representatives, whose son Charles Robert now ably represents the district (3rd) in Congress...
...Said crisp Dr. Kingsbury: "The incentive which fires the Soviet worker is not desire for Money but desire for Power. Power and influence accrue to a worker, man or woman, who holds a managerial position, such as director of a textile factory or designer of bridges and so forth. Graft and corruption, if existent, are certainly well hidden. The most stringent punishments are meted out to the dishonest by the Soviet Government...
...they ruffled the 344 pages of this crisp, blue-bound volume, most observers wondered how much the Simon Commission had been influenced by St. Gandhi's spectacular campaign for independence (TIME, Jan. 6, et seq.). They found Sir John's own characteristic answer in his last section-section 369 of Part Twelve, the one ending, "All of which we submit for Your Majesty's gracious consideration." It opens magnificently thus...
...when Calvin Coolidge was first squeamish and had to sit down, then frankly seasick and had to lie prostrate below while the Fleet roared salutes for his momentarily unmanned office. President Hoover stood under the eight-inch guns of the Salt Lake City-10,000 tons, last crisp word in U. S. cruisers-and peered closely through binoculars at the trim masses of war machinery which soon came plowing past. From the light-cruiser division (eight strong, four abreast, led by the Detroit), then from the destroyer divisions (26 strong, four abreast, led by the cruiser Concord), then from...
...Rachele Mussolini. At a reception the day before she had presided for the first time in her life as the Dictator's official hostess. Usually she lives in Milan, 350 miles from Rome. Appropriately the Dictator's wife was escorted by the tall, stern Roman with eagle-eyebrows and crisp white beard whom L'Avenir had called Il Duce's "designated successor": Count Costanzo Ciano...