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Scandals. Three financial scandals in two countries further strained British resources. The machinations of Clarence Hatry in London in 1929 ruined hundreds of British investors (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929. et seq.). Baron Kylsant's performances with the Royal Mail Line represented an aggregate loss of some $15,000,000 to little stockholders (TIME. July 29. 1929. et seq.). And the failure of the Banque Oustric in Paris last year burned so many French bankers' fingers that they began to withdraw French gold balances from London. They needed the cash...
...pithy caption: "Not British Discipline." Since then British Discipline has suffered many a rude shock. There was the disgraceful affair off Malta in 1928 when Rear Admiral Bernard St. George Collard was compulsorily retired for shameful conduct, such as insulting Bandmaster Percy Barnacle (TIME, March 6, 1928 et seq.). Last January the crew of the submarine tender Lucia mutinied on a rumor that their Christmas leave was to be cancelled and that they were to paint ship on Sunday (TIME, Jan. 19). All papers last week harked back to the great mutiny of 1797 when the underpaid, scurvy-ridden crews...
When revolution broke in Brazil last October, U. S. Ambassador Edwin Vernon Morgan was on vacation (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.). When three revolutions in one week gripped Guatemala, U. S. Minister Sheldon Whitehouse was on vacation (TIME, Dec. 29, et seq.). When Alfonso XIII was driven from his throne, U. S. Ambassador Irwin Boyle Laughlin was out of town (TIME, April 20 et seq.). Last week U. S. Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes sailed for a vacation in the U. S. the day Japanese troops captured the Chinese city of Mukden...
Left. By Edward William Bok, editor who died last year: $23,718,981. Federal inheritance tax, $3,609,070; State of Pennsylvania, $2.886,730. The largest holding was stock in Curtis Publishing Co. (Ladies' Home Journal, Saturday Evening Post, et al.) valued...
There should be at least one Babbitt course in every Harvard man's curriculum if only because he is Harvard's most honouredd prophet in every country but his own. This particular one carries on the good only family fond; Babbitt, I., vs. Rousseau et al. You'll enjoy Les Confessions (the English editions are expurgated) along with an apple and a fire on a few could autumn evenings; and when spring rolls around there's La Neuvelle Heloise to be read aloud on the shores of Walden Pond. You'll learn all about conchiliomania (a disease...