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...year all Canada has waited for the Hon. Henry Herbert Stevens, pinko-minded Conservative, to set up his own party. Mr. Stevens broke spectacularly with his old friend Premier Richard Bedford Bennett over "The Pamphlet," a Stevens expose of too ruggedly individualistic Canadian business practices (TIME, Nov. 5). Next he meekly accepted Bennett's reproofs, meekly resigned as Bennett's Minister of Trade & Commerce. Last week with elections scarcely two months off, Henry Herbert Stevens at last announced that he was prepared to challenge Canada's two old guard parties, the Conservatives and the Liberals, with...
...Charles R. Walgreen withdrew his niece from University of Chicago, clamoring that the campus was rampant with Communism, President Hutchins angrily refused to dignify his vaporings with a public investigation (TIME, April 22). Only 75 of the University's 7,500 full-time students belonged to its two pinko student organizations.* But Drugman Walgreen got his hearing anyway, before the Illinois Senate and in the Press...
Rousingly Chamber and Senate answered with smash votes of confidence 324-160 and 233-15 respectively. On international exchange the franc rose as the pound, dollar, fell, carrying up with it the Swiss franc, guilder and lira. Displeased were French Communists and extreme Socialists, their spleeny spokesman being Pinko Deputy Leon LaGrange who had declared in debate, "The 200 families who rule this country are opposing the National will!" These villains, Deputy La-Grange said, are headed by "the regents of the Bank of France, de Rothschild and de Wendel!" In French villages sage peasants with gold in their mattresses...
...investigation of free love among the faculty without so much as starting the Red-hunt. Last week the committee was waiting for a new appropriation when a group of undergraduate athletes and fraternity men became annoyed at charges of campus radicalism. Breaking up a meeting of the pinko League for Industrial Democracy one warm, moonlight night, they grabbed the leaders, dragged them down to Lake Mendota. "For God's sake, fellows," remonstrated a professor who happened upon the scene, "think of the University." Plop! Plop! Plop! Into chilly Lake Mendota went three howling Leaguers...
Married. Esther Strachey, divorced wife of pinko Economist Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey; and Chester A. Arthur Jr., organizer for Utopia, pinko grandson of the 21st President of the U. S.; in Harrison...