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...hour of triumph at the Primate of All England: "I am bound to say that I am not able-and not for the first time-to follow the workings of that great mind!" C. Prominent Protestant M. P.s such as Winston Churchill hurried with Jewish colleagues like Major James de Rothschild, M. P. to packjam the galleries of the House of Lords last week as it began debate on the Government bill to partition Palestine into a Jewish State, an Arab State and a British Mandate over the Holy Places (TiME, July 19 et ante...
President Eamon de Valera ran last week for a third term. Election of an Irish Free State President is by the Dail, itself just newly elected in a poll which failed to give de Valera's Fianna Fail Party the absolute majority for which the President had hoped (TIME, July 12). Fianna Fail won 69 seats, exactly the same number as the total held by all other parties combined. Free State Laborites continued last week to vote in loose coalition with Fianna Fail, and Eamon de Valera was elected President for the third time by a smashing Dail vote...
Last week Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's summer city hall (see p. 12) was mildly excited when a letter arrived from Rafael Espaillat de la Mota, Dominican consul general in New York, announcing that President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina of the Dominican Republic was presenting to Mayor LaGuardia four solenodons. The mayor passed the word to the Park Department, which had never heard of solenodons. When the Barinquen docked with the solenodons, one male had died. Remaining were a male, a female and a baby. Captain Ronald Cheyne-Stout, Director of the Zoo picked up his three bedraggled specimens...
...golf with other members of the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews. Last week Dr. Brown was far less in evidence than such U. S. churchmen as Union's passionate Reinhold Niebuhr or deliberate Henry Sloane Coffin, Princeton Theological Seminary's John Alexander Mackay, Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, President John Raleigh Mott, of the World's Alliance of Y, M. C. A.'s. Nonetheless, Dr. Brown not only raised $70,000 for the expenses of the U. S. delegation ($25,000 for the British delegates was provided by open...
...most harmonious commission in Washington, the five commissioners lean heavily on such loyal staff members as Chief Counsel William Thomas Kelley, a hulking, red-faced lawyer who booms and beats the table and has been with FTC from the start, more than 20 years ago; his chief assistant, Armand De Birney, onetime ace investigator for the Veteran's Bureau; Economists Francis Walker, jovial Willis Jerome Ballinger and Corwin D. Edwards. Assistant to the chairman and the FTC's pressagent is Joe Baker, tall, slim, leathery, onetime...