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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sorry, but another TIME reader beat Mr. Steiner to the draw. At Mr. Edward G. MacGlashan's (Hartford, Conn.) suggestion, Former Subscriber Harper's TIME will go to Rev. Theodoric Kernel, O.F.M. (TIME, June 5, ). 8) and the 18 other missionaries in the Vicariate of the Catholic Mission at Chowtsun, Shantung, China...
...Ignacy Moscicki delivered a nine-minute patriotic speech which thrilled his country. "The Baltic seacoast, Pomorze [the Polish Corridor] and our two ports, Gdynia and Danzig, are the air and sun of our national life and the basis of our political and economic independence," said the 72-year-old former professor of electrochemistry who has been Poland's President for the last 13 years. "Through this narrow gate, through a small strip of seacoast, is done three-quarters of our business with foreign nations. This is our free unhindered way to all the other countries in the world...
...Anthony Eden, former Foreign Secretary who could not stomach appeasement, outlined a new foreign policy: "Not only to be tough, but to look tough, to talk tough, and to act tough is the best contribution we as a people can make to peace today...
Recalling that the dismissal of the late Henry Suzzallo (subsequently president of the Carnegie Foundation) from the presidency of the University of Washington 13 years ago led to talk of impeaching former Governor Roland H. Hartley, Governor Martin's opponents began to build up the Fisher dismissal as a major political issue...
Kudosed last week: Eduard Benes, Czecho-Slovakia's former President, who has lectured on democracy at University of Chicago since last February (honorary degrees from Princeton, Yale); Poet Archibald MacLeish, newly appointed Librarian of Congress (Doctor of Letters, Yale); U. S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter (Doctor of Civil Law, Oxford), who was saluted with a Latin pun: Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas (Happy indeed is he who can understand legal arguments...