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In Detroit, a young, short, slender, redhaired Irishman prepared last week to take over the Mayor's office. He had won the extraordinary election required by the recall of Mayor Charles Bowles (TIME, Aug. 4). The redhaired Irishman was a "dark horse" who entered the race backed by the...
Personally attractive for his 41 years, virile, an orator comparable to Kerensky, Trotzky or Mussolini, Demagog Hitler soon reclaimed his old position. To his cause have flocked many an adoring Jungfraulein and hot-blooded youngster. The latter he has organized into clean-up gangs called "storm squads," comparable to the...
*Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, was the present Lord Salisbury's father. Orator, diplomat, moderate Tory, he was thrice Prime Minister of Great Britain.
In far away India obstreperous Gand-hites wear white, homespun "Gandhi Caps," which British policemen fish off their heads. The fishing is done with poles having a sharp hook at the end, and while they fish the police beat the nonresisting Gandhites with staves (TIME, July 7). It was in...
Traditionally critical of the rest of the world, Harvard men occasionally scrutinize Harvard, say sharp things about themselves and their traditions.* Weightier than most critiques during the year is the senior oration at Class Day exercises. Excerpts from last week's oration by Senior Orator Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg: