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Strictly nonpolitical, the A. L. I. nevertheless last week was the field for one more joust in a historic political quarrel. Every newshawk assigned to Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel knew that a letter of greeting from Franklin Roosevelt would be read to the Institute's 15th annual meeting, and that Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes would address some "informal remarks." They expected that Mr. Hughes would mention the work of the Supreme Court. Overt conflict over the President's plan to rejuvenate the Supreme Court would naturally be as remote as the conflict in ideology...
Opening their seasons this afternoon, the Varsity and Freshman fencing teams will meet the Hartford Fencers' Club and Governor Dummer Academy, respectively. Coach Rone Peroy will use his strongest Varsity men, but he said yesterday that he expected to employ a weak group of Freshman fencers. Both teams will joust at the Indoor Athletic Building, the Freshmen at 2 o'clock, and the Varsity...
...group of convicts to rebel, they not only get themselves badly stoned but end up in the hands of the local duke. This gentleman seeks to pacify the Don by humoring his delusions. The old Knight of the Mournful Countenance, however, detects a slight, wanders off once more to joust with windmills, returns home to find his books ablaze and to die. Photographed by Nicolas Farkas, who directed The Battle (TIME, Dec. 3), Don Quixote is at its best when it is purely pictorial-the brilliant whites and gloomy greys of Spain; the noble nose, the gaunt cheek, the scraggly...
...children! I am the Guardian of the waters and all its inhabitants, by appointment of Neptune, our Master. This joust is a menace to your safety, and contrary to the laws of divine love, and natural selection. Hence I must now protect you, my children from this, your peril...
...looked last week as if Harvey Samuel Firestone had acquired a new spear for his running joust with the mail-order tire. To Harvey Firestone, an embattled individualist, all the woes of the rubber world are compressed in the cheap tires which his three big competitors - Goodyear, Goodrich and U. S. Rubber - manufacture but which the mail-order houses (and a few chainstores) sell under their own brand name (TIME, April 10). Harvey Firestone's spears in the past have been price-cuts and letters to his stockholders impaling his Akron neighbors. This time the spear-thrower...