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With the proposal to abolish compulsory military service few would care to quarrel. So long as men are deliberated trained for war, even as a defeuse measure, war will be possible. It would be superfluous to repeat this truism if there were not large and influential groups which fall to recognize it. Dr. Bntler's cardinal proposal, however, that the War Department be abolished in favor of a Department of National Defense, is of more doubtful value. To hide the business of war behind a euphemism while retaining its nature is at best a well-meant subterfuge. It is pleasant...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Governor of New York, had Alfred Emanuel Smith to lunch at his Manhattan home. Because of Mr. Smith's apparent reluctance to endorse the Roosevelt candidacy, because of their quarrel over reforestation in the last election (TIME. Nov. 16), Democratic observers thought they saw large political significance in this first meeting in four months between the two men. Mr. Smith, wearing his Brown Derby, shouldered his way through a thronging Press in the Roosevelt library. "Hello, Governor, how are you?" he galled out .cordially. "Hello, Al, I'm mighty glad to see you," replied Governor...
...Green Hills Farms, a big, fashionable apartment hotel near city limits, went Francis A. Donaldson III, a muscular youth of 25 with considerable social èclat. He went there to try to settle a long quarrel with Horace Allen, a retired and impoverished woolen goods manufacturer, and his son Edward, 23, one of the ablest gentlemen riders in the East. Both the Donaldsons and the Aliens knew that young Donaldson and Rose Allen, 18, were lovers. Donaldson and her brother had been schoolmates at Haverford and bitterly disliked each other. As the altercation grew heated, Father Allen said afterwards. Francis...
Newsmen have acquired a curious habit of writing about Charles Francis Adams, Secretary of the Navy, as having "tears in his eyes." When they filed into his office last week to ask if he had resigned in a quarrel with the President over Navy policy (see p. 13), the dry-eyed Secretary said: "I have not resigned...
...with the Daily of the University of Minnesota took first place at last year's convention of the National College Press Association. On the Ann Arbor campus, many a scandal has been openly aired. Michigan's President Clarence Cook Little resigned two years ago after a long quarrel with the State legislature (TIME, Feb. 4, 1929). Last year three students were jailed for 'legging; later, five fraternity houses were raided for liquor by the police, were closed by the University (TIME, Feb. 23). The Michigan Daily reported all these events. Last week the Daily reported more strife...