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...need for bringing a closer relationship between the Council and the Houses is shown by the almost Olympian inaccessibility from which the Council now suffers, an inaccessibility making the Council's influence over House affairs ephemeral, at best of little value. The board of House committee heads, on the other hand, sets the pace for House business, but like the continental Congress it lacks the basic authority, inclusive jurisdiction, and continuity of membership that only the main Council can possess. Thus, with the friction of divided responsibility promising more and more sparks in the future, some sort of device...
...sprints in both meets Olympian Charlie Hutter should have little difficulty, and ably assisted by Captain John Colony, Don Barker and Don McKay, the Tiger sprint squad under Van Oss will get lean pickings. Dario Berrizzi will strive to lead the field in the middle and longer distances, and will have a tougher time when he comes up against the speedy Bengal captain...
...institutions." This was delegating so much power to Göring that his enormous bulk seemed almost to loom over small Hitler, but the mystic Führer has long toyed with notions of betaking himself upward to a status in which his title of Leader would be as Olympian and detached from responsibility for details as that of Emperor...
Distinguished in appearance, impressive in speech, and Olympian in manner, he has awed class after class when he expounds the intricacies of Elizabethan interpretations, or the Anglo-Saxon of Beowulf. Today ends his forty-eighth year of classroom teaching, and in the fourth and succeeding centuries of Harvard's existence, today will be remembered for that reason alone...
...Britons does Olympian self-satisfaction sit more easily than on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, chill, patrician Arthur Neville Chamberlain, who has given Britain three budget surpluses in succession. That for 1934-35 helped win for the Conservative Party last year's British general elections. Last week, as fiscal 1935-36 closed, Chancellor Chamberlain let it be known that he had underestimated the surplus by two-thirds, thus doing his bit to reconcile Britons to a walloping rearmament program and a possible budget deficit for 1936-37. Instead of ?5,610,000 ($28,050,000), the 1935-36 surplus...