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...week's other new monarch, Leopold III of Belgium. But the Japan that picked him from the Chinese discard ten years ago has not paid his bills for nothing. Japan needs him as a symbol before the world of Manchukuo's independence, a hollow-eyed figurehead to distract Manchurian peasants with the pomp of a royal court...
Higher than physical comfort the scholar holds adequate time for research. To classroom duties which distract him at every university, Harvard adds tutorial work. Tugged three ways at once, the scholar finds himself spread thin. President Conant would ease the classroom strain...
...House, Representative Andrew Somers announced that the Coinage, Weights & Measures Committee would hear the opinions of all the most vociferous money theorists-hard, soft, and elastic-Dr. O. M. W. Sprague, Frank Vanderlip. Father Coughlin, Professor Irving Fisher, Banker James P. Warburg, etc. etc. Before their voices could distract the country, the President acted. He sum moned all the members of the Senate and House Banking and Currency Committees ta a White House monetary soiree. He told them exactly what steps he wished to take next and why. The following noon he sent a message to Congress making the outline...
...protested Mr. Moore, "I'd put a ballet in their backfield; it might distract Harvard. Also I would make Yale co-educational, make all universities co-ed. Why not help the boys...
...revolt died. Prominent Government partisans attempted to distract the populace by blaming the entire affair on U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles, who like most foreign observers has been admittedly friendly to ex-President de Cespedes...