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...week progressed the Franco-Thaï quarrel grew into an ironic kettle-storm which somehow summed up all the topsy-turvy diplomatic scrambles of 1940. The same France which could once send a stern note to an Eastern potentate and get presents, favors, concessions in return, meekly begged ratification of a non-aggression pact of a country whose name sounded and politics looked something like Toyland. Thailand ignored the request. Its Government at Bangkok grew insistent on the subject of its claims against Indo-China. It looked as if mighty France might have to give in to the aggression...
...statement Engle attributed to Earnest said Mrs. Atkins removed her clothes "as soon as we got in" the farmhouse. There was a party in a second floor bedroom, the police captain said Earnest told him, and then a fierce quarrel...
...throws some light on the shortcomings of the University's present iron-bound "up or out" tenure policy. Professor Simmons is a productive scholar and excellent teacher. He was let out as part of a long-range plan designed to keep the Faculty's budget balanced. No one will quarrel with such a policy, but when it is rigidly applied without regard to the needs of individual departments, the quality of undergraduate instruction is bound to suffer. Harvard cannot afford to lose men of Simmons' calibre...
After the fall of France last June. TVA's catlike, long-nosed vice chairman, David Eli Lilienthal, made a speech in support of TVA that no reasonable man could quarrel with. Excerpt: "Had the appropriations for the construction of any one of these TVA dams been defeated or delayed, the preparedness program of this nation would be impeded. ..." Defense, originally just a legal excuse for TVA's power policy, is fast becoming its prime concern. Last week Franklin Roosevelt informed Congress of the Defense Advisory Commission's twelve principles for letting defense contracts. One was that contracts...
...Quarrel In Brooklyn, two motorists bumped, jumped, brawled. Charged with assault, Elliott Walton contended that William Marduet had seized him by the neck, choked him, that only then had he bitten William Marduet...