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Early one morning last week Judge David G. Jenkins walked into his Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas at Youngstown, Ohio, with a thoughtful frown on his face. Since April he had been studying the famed suit by which Cyrus Stephen Eaton attempted to fulfill his vow that "Youngstown Sheet and Tube will never merge with Bethlehem Steel Corp." (TIME, March...
...State and Navy Departments of the U. S. frown on the practice of tauromachy, or the art of bullfighting, by U. S. official representatives. But when Major Peter C. Geyer Jr., U. S. M. C., naval attache to the Legation at Tegucigalpa killed a bull in a bull ring last week, the State and Navy departments were pleased. Explanation...
...governments- have "renounced war as an instrument of national policy" (TIME, July 30; Sept. 3, 1928). Last week the Court's bench was happily packed in the pact's favor by electing to it Frank Billings Kellogg himself. Well may naughty nations come to dread the twitching frown of this small, wizened Galahad of Peace. Election was by the Assembly and Council of the League of Nations,† sitting separately and secretly last week in Swiss Geneva (see col. 2). Of 51 assembly ballots cast by as many nations, League tellers threw out four as "defective and void...
...Undset's scene is medieval (14th Century) Norway, her people medieval Norse Christians violent in action, grim of conscience. In this instalment old Hero Olav has withered into the sere & yellow, but he is still master in his own house, who can save himself much speech by an occasional frown. Unconfessed sins have darkened Olav's mind. His dead wife's bastard son. Eirick, is a living reminder of the murder of his wife's betrayer. Eirick, son avenger of the title, never learns the secret of his birth, but he and his supposed father are continually running foul...
...principals are F. Gardner Clough, Hervey White & friends v. Woodstock's Respectables (local residents who are not artists, who frown on Art). Chief enemy of the Respectables is Clough, for though White was founder of the colony and instigator of the Maverick Festival, Clough's press and marital activities have drawn most venom from churchgoing Woodstock merchants. He is editor of the Woodstock bulletin, a journal of Woodstock's art votaries,? therefore chief spokesman and defender of the colonists against "the hypocritical piety of Christians." When, at the 1929 Maverick an anonymous fiat from a "Committee of Fifty" warned...