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...against the British and at all costs the Moroccans must not rise against the French. In these circumstances, French Premier Pierre Laval indicated last week: that Morocco must and will be given the greatest latitude in nonobservance of sanctions consistent with French "devotion to the League." All this Paris pother about Morocco and its 24-year-old puppet Sultan was of course M. Laval's high-sign last week to Italians that he is still secretly working his hardest to obtain the "free hand in Ethiopia'' he promised Benito Mussolini at the time of the Franco-Italian...
...know anything about it," snapped President Walter B. Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey, arriving in Manhattan from London, where he had remained at the Ritz Hotel during the whole pother. Still 100% mum. Tycoon Teagle debarked in Manhattan last week, while London papers still rumored that he hired Mr. Rickett in the first place and ordered the promoter's fat fee paid last week regardless of future developments...
...British jitters were chiefly the result of the pepper pother. Reopening of the pepper market after three failures and a week's suspension by no means marked the end of the pepper pool's spicy history (TIME, Feb. 18). For by last week it was clear that Garabed Bishirgian, the shrewd little naturalized Armenian "Pepper King," had fine friends in high places. Broadly hinted was a British "Stavisky" scandal. Names of Cabinet and Parliament members, big bankers and business"-men, were indiscriminately linked to the great commodity speculation of the past two years. Wild as such talk probably...
...years cosmic rays have made a pother in the scientific news. Hardly less of a pother has Caltech's famed Robert Andrews Millikan made by his controversies with colleagues who did not see his cosmic ray theories as he did. By last fortnight Dr. Millikan had decided that laymen interested in cosmic rays were being hopelessly confused by the tangle of-fact and conjecture reported by numerous researchers...
From the vantage of his 72 years. University of Wisconsin's Emeritus Economist John Rogers Commons dismissed the whole pother with: "It makes no difference how the New Deal is taught, because most of the New Deal legislation will be declared unconstitutional in the next few months anyway...