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EZRA Pound's selection, not yet published in America, of what he deems the most vital in contemporary Angle-American poetry is likely to provoke controversy, for Pound has always been a stormy petrel in the arts, and both his criticism and his poetry possess an incisiveness that has been regarded by some as bellicose. One should not be misled by the man's egotism. Although he loses no opportunity to remind his readers of his special merits, Pound has been an important force in Anglo-American literature. His innovations have been genuine improvements in the technique of poetry...
...While Columbia and Cornell have contributed the shining lights among the President's liberal advisers, Harvard has sent only her renowned John H. Williams to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The Business School, by way of the Bank of England, proffered and then received back the stormy petrel of inflation, Oliver M. W. Sprague. It remained for the Law School, where liberalism burns with a less frozen flame, to uphold the University's reputation on capitol hill and to beat its rival Law Schools hands down in point of influence on the Administration. Thanks to Professors Landis, Sayre...
...Communist generals. Should they enter into friendly relations with Fukien they would have for the first time a direct and easy access to the sea. Ominous seemed the fact that the Foreign Minister of the Fukien Government is notorious Chen Yu-jen (Eugene Chen), long the Communistically inclined stormy petrel of South China politics. As War Minister the new state has General Tsai Ting-kai, famed commander of the 19th Route Army in its deathless defense of Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Governor Li Chai-sum of Kwangsi Province was styled the "Chairman" (President) of the new Government but Chinese...
Malcolm P. McNair '16, professor of Marketing, who last spring suddenly found himself a stormy petrel of Cambridge politics, recently sent a circular letter to voters in the city, supporting Mayor Russell...
Goodwin has been a stormy petrel in Massachusetts politics for several years. Registrar of Motor Vehicles under former Governor Alvan T. Fuller, he achieved considerable renown for his active conduct of that office, but later became involved in a violent dispute with the governor and was removed. Since then he has run for the governorship on an independent ticket but was defeated...