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Sacked and burned by fleet-riding Arabs was the ancient town of Safed, for centuries a seat of mystical Jewish learning. The Moslem version of the affray could not be learned, but Jews told of fleeing headlong through the streets, dodging into houses, making what resistance they could while the Arabs battered down doors, put bullets indiscriminately among the Jews and ended by igniting the town. As at Hebron, where eight U. S. Rabbinical students were killed (TIME, Sept. 2), reports from Safed stressed such accusations as "pillage," "butchery," "rape." Most of the Jews involved were again claimed to have...
...headlong pacifiers, checked, promised to move cautiously against a repetition of the 1927 Geneva Conference fiasco. Meanwhile disarmament sentiment was growing in Britain. Impulsive was the suggestion of Charles Kingsley Webster, professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, Wartime member of the British General Staff, that Britain should abandon her naval bases in the Caribbean as a gesture of international goodwill. For home consumption he pointed out that the West Indian stations were expensive and of small value, and added...
...state. At 13 he peddled school books, developed an amazing gift of gab. Then he took to selling a lard substitute, conducting baking contests. The winner of such a contest in Shreveport became his wife. He hustled through a three-year college course in seven months to jump headlong into state politics-''on the people's side." His campaigns were never dull and usually triumphant. The cities to the south were against him but in the northern reaches of the state he firmly grounded his political influence with the farmers and their...
...Prime Minister and Aristide Briand retains his pet post of Foreign Minister. Thus it came about that Edouard Herriot had to go out to Pons, last week, as Minister of Fine Arts, and there dedicate a statue of such controversial and inflammatory sort that it plunged him headlong into the gummiest kind of political mess...
Dean McConn ignores the fact that some bodies of undergraduates are demonstrably activated by a desire for study and plunges headlong into an explanation of its impossibility. He is convinced that the exclusive purpose of an education for nine out of ten undergraduates is to prepare them for business. This absolute neglect of the value of study for its own sake and for the appreciation of human knowledge attendant on it hardly needs comment. Its glaring fallacy will be too familiar to anyone acquainted with the already large literature inspired by the spiritless existence of the retired business...