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...readers will be sure to note his only mention (1915) of the late great Eugene Debs: "And who is Eugene Debs? He writes sometimes in a revolutionary manner. Is he only spineless like Kautsky?" And everyone but Bolsheviks will enjoy this passage, in a letter to ,Maxim Gorky: "Your news that a Bolshevik, although a former Bolshevik, was treating you by a new method, has made me really very anxious. God preserve us from 'comrade' doctors in general and Bolshevik doctors in particular. But seriously, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, 'comrade' doctors...
...lady presented to the King curtsies. A gentleman presented to the King bows. Neither a lady nor a gentleman seizes the King's hand to shake it. Last week the greatest Court sensation since Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was impudent about King Edward VIII* was created by Adolf Hitler's personal and official envoy to the Court of St. James, Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador...
...ancient maxim, attributed to Accursius (1182-1260) and much quoted by legalists, reads: Cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelum (He who owns the soil owns above it to the sky). Until recently this principle of property ownership was generally accepted, and air rights above property still sell for vast sums.* But the advent of air transport has vastly complicated Accursius' ancient tenet. When aircraft pass over a man's land or over foreign territory, is it trespass...
...Accomplishments by secret servicemen of various Great Powers in committing political murders from time to time with great neatness were well described in Harper's for last August. A favorite weapon is the pistol with Maxim silencer. After its slight "phht" the secret agent, having accomplished a murder which his Government highly approves and considers "vital to the safety of the Fatherland," hails a passing taxi, speeds to the nearest convenient railway station, is usually over the frontier of the country in which his pistol went "phht" before the killing is discovered...
...shrewd deliberation evinced in today's recommendations for the organization of the Graduate School of Public Administration continue to characterize the development of that school, Mr. Littauer should see his gift unfold as a genuinely noble experiment, in the pre-Prohibition sense of the expression. Guided by the excellent maxim that "It is far more important that the work of training students be started right than that it be started early", the commission has advocated a slow beginning, with a year set aside for conditioning in cooperation with bureau chiefs, before students are admitted in September 1938. It has thereby...