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Next chief delegate to land (at Montreal) was Vice President Sean Thomas O'Kelly of the Irish Free State. Bristling, he told Canadian newshawks that, in view of the Free State's present quarrel with the Mother Country, his delegation had no hope of reaching an accord with the No. 11Delegation at Ottawa but hopes to sign accords with the dominions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Imperial Conference | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...cosmic rays are the "birth cries" of atoms newly born in the cold spaces between the stars. His paper was written before he heard of a report published last week in the Physical Review by his fellow Nobel Prizewinner, Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, now in Peru. Old is the quarrel between Dr. Millikan and Sir James Hopwood Jeans, who calls cosmic rays the "death wails" of matter on the stars. Dr. Millikan's friend Dr. Compton last week attacked his cosmic ray theories from a new quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whence Cosmic Rays? | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

Though the German said of the Young Plan that all its promises have failed to come true, adding that Germany can pay no more Reparations, there was no quarrel. The Frenchman's equally blunt retort that Germany can and must pay something, was taken in good part by Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen. Suddenly this onetime officer in the Kaiser's Army electrified Lausanne by proposing casually and unofficially "in American"* a military alliance between Germany and France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Chancellor Proposes | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...publisher of the New York American, but he was unable to show great profits for that never-prosperous paper. In 1925 he became vice president of American Weekly but could not get along with President Albert John Kobler (now publisher of the Manhattan tabloid Mirror). To settle the quarrel Publisher Hearst transferred Adman Swasey back to California, gave him the enormously lucrative representation of the American Weekly there. When Hearst asked him in 1929 to go East again to take hold of the Journal, Adman Swasey went reluctantly. During his administration the Journal made circulation gains for 27 consecutive months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Swasey to the Coast | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...again, successful, in Lucerne, Switzerland. The combination results in a triumph for romance. An attempt has been made to put into the picture the confused moral values of Author Barnes's novel, with the new twist confusing them even further. Typical sequence: Ann Harding and her first husband quarrel in a taxi. He gets out, goes to a speakeasy, repents, telephones her to join him. Ann Harding tramps gloomily in and says she is going to have a baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 30, 1932 | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

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