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...Adolf Hitler who brought the long latent Chamberlain-Eden quarrel to a crisis. The action of the Fuhrer fortnight ago, after cracking down on German Army leaders, of appointing as his Foreign Secretary dynamic, scheming, adventurous Joachim von Ribbentrop, was taken by the English as a storm signal for Europe, especially since last week Ribbentrop was closeted with the Dictator in his mountain retreat. With what policies should His Majesty's Government seek to steer majestically through the storm? It came to Mr. Eden's ears that Mr. Chamberlain, in commenting to other members of the Cabinet upon...
With one projected piece of sculpture Mr. Connick had no quarrel: the monumental, distinguished design for a new goddess, Pacifica (see cut), which San Francisco's veteran Ralph Stackpole modeled to be the exposition's 70 ft. cynosure. But Mr. Connick remarked of Abundance, a nude male figure by David Slivka, that it looked more like a failure of the fig leaf crop; of Occident & Orient, two female nudes by Jacques Schnier, that they would be barred from burlesque; of South American Woman Grinding Corn by Cecilia Graham, that it should be called Woman Bet-Loser Shoving...
...reform of existent Freshman electoral institutions, I think the time opportune to present a plan embodying the desirable qualities of student democracy and calculated to eradicate the evils of the present, undemocratic Union Committee without returning to the former haphazard selection of class officers. There can be no quarrel with the assertion that an efficient, democratic organ is essential for the accomplishment of the many diverse problems facing so large a Class. It may be further asserted that this organ should be chosen early in the year directly by and from the student body...
Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, returns to England after a seven years' exile resulting from a quarrel with King Henry II over the spiritual and temporal jurisdictions...
...Duncan, Commercial Investment Trust's Henry Ittleson. As in most of his co-operation conferences, the President complained about specific aspects of business, this time the evils of easy installment credit and the irregularity of automobile employment. With these points the callers had no quarrel, departed with high resolves...