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...CRIMSON's dark horses can be examined. From this point of view Seabury, Bulkley, Murray, and Reed appear in turn not as a possible dark horse but as a bete noire. To one or another important element within the Democratic party each of the candidates would be persons non grata...
...prime question to be asked each appointee: Did he favor retaining Frank E. Bonner as executive secretary of the Commission? Secretary Bonner was accused of favoring private power companies by radical Senators who wanted the new Commission to dismiss him at once. What made Secretary Bonner persona non grata to this senatorial group was exemplified by him last week in a Manhattan speech to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. There he declared that the Federal Government should "confine itself to a minimum of interference" with the water power industry and leave regulation to the States. Prof. Guido Hugo Marx...
Success combines the best features of a newspaper, an historical novel, a cinema, a course of lectures. Its scene is Munich and Bavaria, 1921-23. Central theme is the trial and imprisonment of one Martin Kruger, director of Munich's National Galleries. Krüger is persona non grata with the Bavarian government; on a trumped-up charge of perjury he is arrested and convicted. As his friends work for his release he becomes for them the symbol of justice; to the government his unjust imprisonment is an instance of good administration. But for each side Krüger is only...
...table, seating her at his right. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, wife of the speaker of the House, who contests title of second lady of the land with Mrs. Gann, absented herself from the function. ¶Hearing from Tokyo that William Cameron Forbes of Boston would be persona grata as U. S. Ambassador to Japan, the President sent Mr. Forbes's appointment to the Senate. Also appointed last week: Ralph J. Totten of Nashville, Tenn., to be first U. S. Minister to the Union of South Africa...
...Last week President Hoover selected William Cameron Forbes, 60, Boston merchant, polo enthusiast, bachelor grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson, to be Ambassador to Japan. Before the appointment was officially announced Tokyo was asked if Mr. Forbes was persona grata. Two months ago Mr. Forbes led a Hoover investigation commission back from Haiti with recommendations which the President accepted as the basis for a new U. S. policy toward that black republic (TIME, April 7). Familiar enough is Mr. Forbes with the Pacific and its problems. President Roosevelt first sent him to the Philippines in 1904 as a member...