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...Geneva for the first time as British Foreign Secretary, handsome young Anthony Eden brought the Empire's vast influence to bear squarely upon Danzig. In an abject climb-down, Senate President Arthur Greiser of this minute State agreed that its Government of native Danzig Nazis will abolish flagrant undemocratic abuses at the demand of Mr. Eden. The League's High Commissioner for Danzig is Irish Sean Lester, and Geneva found it piquant that Mr. Eden strongly backed him up last week, for the Irish Free State was this week the only part of King Edward VIII...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Diplomatic Billingsgate | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...nity. Her Un bel di vedremo was perfectly patterned to describe Butterfly's faith in Lieutenant Pinkerton's return, her defiant refusal to believe that he could have for gotten her. Other Butterflies have sung the aria with greater flourish, built it up to a more flagrant climax. Susanne Fisher's voice, though not powerful, is true, clear, delicately expressive. She uses it with discriminating taste and intelligence. To prepare for a role she plays through the entire opera score a dozen times be fore she sings a note. Such painstaking study had its effect last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: West Virginia's Butterfly | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

Accusing Mather of flagrant violation, Representative Dorgan, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday, threatened to put teeth into the Teachers' Oath law. As Democratic representative of Ward 17, Derchester, Mr. Thomas Dorgan introduced the Oath Bill into the Massachusetts House last January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dorgan, Teachers' Oath Legislation Creator, Threatens Teeth in Law to Restrain Violators | 12/5/1935 | See Source »

...recent Lowell and Elito House Dances is sufficient justification for my statement. Add to it, however, the knowledge of the City Police, of the Yard Police, of the House Members in general, and of the Tutors in particular that drunkeness and abuses of House rules are no more flagrant than formerly, that they never were serious, and that, if one examines closely, they are definitely decreased in intensity and number, and one finds the apex of the Lowell House hierarchy alone in his ignorance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

Congressman Fish, admitting the existence of faults in the capitalist system as it now stands, saw a remedy for the more flagrant abuses in the future in such measures as the Securities Act and the abolition of tax-exempt bonds with a view to putting capital into the hands of industry rather than into those of the government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Bankruptcy and Disaster Inevitable Result of Roosevelt's Solving Unemployment, Agree Sinclair, Fish | 11/20/1935 | See Source »

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