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Luncheon was a family affair at Buckingham Palace. King Edward and Queen Mary there decided that when a British warship soon tows the Royal Yacht Britannia's hulk out to be sunk in the. Channel, this will be done in secret, lest yachtsmen and seafarers congregate unduly. The beloved yacht of King George, "The Sailor King," has now been stripped of its best things which were sold at auction in 344 lots last week at East Cowes...
...lack of funds; 2) a sickly economic situation due to get worse as Philippine markets are lost behind the rising U. S. tariff wall; 3) the necessity to provide for self-defense, by universal military service, a trained reserve of 400,000 men; 4) a virtually empty treasury. Lest the National Assembly's opening be saddened, its political lord and master, President Manuel Quezon, spoke of these matters in relatively euphemistic terms, although he had to ask for lower income tax exemptions, higher surtaxes, school taxes, taxes on corporate profits, inheritances, luxuries, amusements, mines, transportation, land...
Between Senator Borah and the deep sea was William Allen White, the Landon representative on the Resolutions Committee. The Landonites wished to placate Mr. Borah, lest he somehow upset their well-laid nomination plans. Well did they know how to proceed. Since Senator Borah, for all his noble traits of character, would never willingly become a member of the Twelve Apostles or of any group larger than one, he could be won to Landon only by giving him some unique privilege. That privilege was to speak with ultimate authority on those planks which most appealed...
Even so, not a few Nicaraguans were worried lest this private political fight serve as an excuse for another term of U. S. occupation. Accordingly, a Somoza spokesman last week broadcast the plea: "Let us solve our own problems. Let us shed our own blood." U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull replied, to pointed inquiries from Chile and Peru, that the U. S. had no intention of intervening in Nicaragua for the sake of the U. S.'s puny ($13,000,000) investments...
Money- The task of a university president is largely one of husbandry. The faculty supervises the breeding of strong academic stock. Rich friends and alumni see that stock is materially nourished. The president, however, must exercise constant broad vigilance lest the flock's young and the flock's runts be driven from the trough and starve. Surveying James Rowland Angell's 15 years in the President's office in Woodbridge Hall, the most acquisitive Yale alumnus cannot quibble at the tremendous wealth that has fallen to Yale. Since taking office. President Angell has doubled...