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Another recent drift was Dictator Stalin's abrupt dissolution of the Society of Old Bolsheviks, hitherto Russia's Communist elite. While many a Communist abroad accused Comrade Stalin of selling true Marxism down Russia's rivers. Comrade Leon Trotsky moved last week from France to Norway, thus putting himself nearer to Communist elements in Russia favorable to the overthrow of Stalin. As the world's greatest living Revolutionist, stern Leon Trotsky has paid no attention to Josef Stalin's arrest in Russia last year of the Great Exile's son Sergei Trotsky...
Back from four months of exploration in the little known regions of Yukon territory, Alaska, H. Adams Carter of Dunster House, Ex-President of the Mountaineering Club, reported yesterday that the National Geographic-Washburn Expedition had discovered four or five mountains hitherto unknown and uncharted. In memory of England's Silver Jubilee, two of the mountains were named King George and Queen Mary...
...issuing his photographs of the collection without text or preparation, that he died of dismay. In 1930 the Windsor librarian gave Kenneth Clark the job of cataloging the entire collection. In the first of the two volumes published last week he includes some 30,000 of Leonardo's hitherto unpublished words, translated from the margins and backs of the drawings...
...scum of the earth. Langlois rejoined the regiment, after a leave spent with his young wife, just as its battered remnants had come out of the front line for a well-earned rest. But their luck was out: because the high command wanted a hitherto impregnable sector of the German line taken within 48 hours, because their general had the reputation of a fire-eater and because the regiment was his tested mouthpiece, the exhausted men were routed out of a five-hour sleep and hurried back into the front line. The optimistic general came up to the front himself...
Father Coughlin and the financial Left have demanded it. Franklin Roosevelt and his New Dealers had hitherto smilingly shaken their heads and denied that they intended going so far. But steadily the New Deal has marched in that direction: centralized some Federal Reserve powers under the Emergency Banking Act; put at the head of the Reserve System a banker specially selected because of his approval of New Deal monetary theories; by a straight party vote got the House to pass a bill centralizing full control of the Reserve System in the Administration's hands...