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...from becoming a general conflict. In entangling Britain in a dangerous European quarrel, the Prime Minister tried to preserve British isolation by explaining in the House of Commons that Lord Runciman will go to Prague with no official status, merely as a bifurcated animal representing no one but himself, a one-man European power...
Prague Tricked? Adrift in the small boat with Lord Runciman will be a delegation of top-rank British Foreign Office experts and officials serving as advisers to this one-man power. Much as other states make unofficial war, Britain had launched an unofficial drive for peace...
...consultant. Some of Mr. Sokolsky's lecturing was done at "civic progress meetings" arranged and paid for by local employers but publicly sponsored by "neutral" groups. Since his return seven years ago from a varied journalistic career in the Far East, able, intelligent Publicist Sokolsky has become a one-man intellectual front for conservative capital. His principal outlets are a weekly syndicated column which appears on the editorial page of the Republican New York Herald Tribune and a weekly radio program sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers. According to La Follette-committee evidence, Mr. Sokolsky has received nearly...
Last week 40 of his best paintings were exhibited at Bronx House. Although 11,000 New York children study each month at 128 Federal Art Project classes in Greater New York, his was the first one-man show of students trained in them. Commented on warmly by Manhattan critics, it made a greater sensation on Washington Avenue. "Congratulations with your son!" said neighbor ladies to Mrs. Cohen, as photographs of Alfred appeared in the newspapers. With mild irony Mr. Cohen, who is a house painter, said that he could not see what all the excitement was about, since...
...affable Salesman Lyon soon rivaled his predecessors in cajoling dealers and salesmen ("My name is Lyon but I'm no wild animal. . . ."), and President Chalkley spurred the whole company to fresh endeavor by encouraging initiative rather than following able Mac McKitterick's policy of being a one-man arbiter of everything. He extended the bonus system to the whole company. As the only major executive in the country with leaf-buying, manufacturing and selling experience he was a logical choice as McKitterick's successor. And as the cool, careful, level-headed type he was well fitted...