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Smith College women approved the discreet refusal of their Professor Frank Hankins at the Congress to become embroiled over what he called "a political policy concerning which people feel deeply." Sir Charles Close, who as the eugenists' British president should have presided, shyly let the Congress' German hosts run everything as they pleased. At the closing Congress banquet Manhattan's Dr. Campbell gave the toast: "To that great leader, Adolf Hitler...
...stop Mussolini, and having obtained the concession, will now try to sell it to the highest bidder-perhaps even to Mr. Rickett's "friend," Benito Mussolini. The Rickett Concession was granted to "the African Development & Exploration Co." This was recently set up as a Delaware corporation by a discreet Manhattan firm which makes a business of incorporating dummy concerns and keeping their secrets...
...Congress of Revolution moved to adjourn, Keynoter Dimitroff urged "Exert your efforts with cunning!" This in the U. S. should take the form of discreet Communist infiltration into labor and religious groups hitherto repelled by Communist bluster, according to Comrade Dimitroff. Mild U. S. Socialists were marked for especially considerate attention by earnest Earl Browder, Secretary of the U. S. Communist Party...
...double eagle of the Habsburgs screamed again. From Vienna a member of the Government rushed post haste to Castle Steenockerzeel in Belgium, the retreat of exiled "Kaiser Otto." All the Government asked of "His Majesty" was that he should behave with procrastination and discretion. Would he please be so discreet as not to return to Austria next week, by which time the Government would have handed him or be about to hand him 63,000 acres in eight districts of Austria, real estate in Vienna which in normal times yielded some $50,000 a year, the Mannersdorf Dairies which sell...
...unblushing practice of "month counting" was indulged in last week by Mayfair socialites, who recalled that the Duke of Kent was married on Nov. 29, 1934, after the following discreet announcement was made at No. 3 Belgrave Square: "The Duchess of Kent has cancelled her forthcoming engagements and is not undertaking any further functions this summer...