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Caution is a sterling British virtue. To British caution may be due the fact that not one British bank failed last year, against the 2,298 that collapsed in the U. S. Last week Charles Gideon Murray. Viscount Elibank. angrily told the London Press of an occasion when British caution was not so successful. As Chairman of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the Empire, Lord Elibank journeyed to the Ottawa conference to see what immediate orders he could pick up for British firms...
...eleven poems in Nicodemus, seven are reprinted from magazines. Like many a matured poet before him, Robinson has turned to Biblical and historical themes: Nicodemus, Sisera. Gideon, the Prodigal Son, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Ponce de Leon. Most of them are written in Robinson's familiar, intricately lucid blank verse. Of the lyrics, many a reader will prefer the verses on "Hector Kane." who, at 85, was still skeptical of the passage of time, died of a stroke in the midst of his skeptic's boast...
...nations occupied the handsome hall just built by the City of Geneva for plenary sessions of the Disarmament Conference (last week sitting in committees). Conscious of their importance, the 324 labor delegates marched bravely in and elected by acclaim as their president a onetime Ontario telegraph keyman, Senator Gideon Decker Robertson, Canadian Labor Minister in the Conservative Cabinet of rich Premier Richard Bedford Bennett...
First scene is laid in the counting house of Gideon Bloodgood (hiss!), a merciless moneychanger who is about to succumb to the panic of 1837. Although not one line of the old script has been changed, Manhattan spectators, aware of last year's Bank of U. S. failure (TIME, Dec. 22, et seq.), will believe that a modern interpolation must have been made when the collapse of the "United States Bank"? an institution of President Van Buren's time?is spoken...
...Daily Sun editorialized in the next day's issue: "Rym Berry . . . deserves, and should get without further ado, a resounding cheer from the undergraduates, a pat on the back from the faculty, and at least a Gideon bible from the graduate students. . . . What would the campus be without the spectacle of Mr. Berry making a weekly pilgrimage to his laundress? . . . What would the Sun's advertising columns be without Mr. Berry's frequent full-page contributions? . . . Mr. Berry belongs to Cornell. Mr. Berry's hat is just as much a part of its owner as his glasses with the heavy...