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Representative Rainey's victory did not come without a major concession in power and prestige. Heretofore Democratic Speakers have always run the House without a "steering committee" such as Republicans regularly employ. Speaker Rainey was ready to take orders from a committee of twelve chosen geographically to represent the will of the party in the House...
...agony intrusts to him the coveted bow and arrows Neoptolemus refuses to be false to his friend or to himself, and tells him the truth. There follows a long struggle between Philoctetes' determination never to go to Troy and Neoptolemus' attempts to persuade him. Odysseus seeks to employ violence, and finally drives Neoptolemus to return the bow to its owner and even to promise to take him home to Greece. His kindness almost breaks down the resolve of Philoctetes, but the latter remains firm until his apotheosized friend Heracles appears as deus ex machine to bid Philoctetes go to Troy...
Since officials of the Polish Government, when conversing with non-Poles, usually speak of Pomorze as the "Corridor," TIME will continue to employ, with no disrespect to Poland, this terse, descriptive TIME-worthy term...
...will have to place some reliance on course grades and college records in attempting to pare down the number at the outset, but the greatest care must be taken to avoid too much reliance on such a system of selection. Oral contacts are obviously the most satisfactory method to employ, but no one method can truly judge the intellectual capabilities of any man. In the ultimate, it will be on the recommendations of competent men that the greatest stress will have to be laid, and Harvard students should not be favored merely because of the availability of data...
...Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, the Conference is to meet this year in London. Its agenda has been prepared by experts whose chairman was the World Bank's nominee and delegate, Dr. Leonard J. A. Trip, President of the Netherlands Bank. Unquestionably the world's central banks will employ the mechanism of the World Bank in any effort made to solve the foremost problem posed in the agenda: "Restoration of an effective international monetary standard to which the countries which have abandoned the gold standard can wisely adhere...