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GREAT BRITAIN Parliament met last week for the first time since the Christmas recess. The first thing the House of Commons wanted to hear was what Neville Chamberlain had to say about what Adolf Hitler had said to the Reichstag the day before (TIME, Feb. 6). The Great Appeaser did his best...
Before Parliament adjourned for its Christmas recess, to meet again on January 31, youthful Dominions & Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald warned the House of Commons that Britain must soon find a policy to increase her birth rate for the "highest imperial reasons." "I confess I cannot do anything about it," added Mr. MacDonald, a bachelor...
...closet,* Lieutenant Governor Hayes took an interest in the company and presided over sessions at which a bill calling for such equipment in all public places was passed. Mr. Hayes could easily see the merit of the fixture which, when a user rises, snaps its seat back into a recess, scours it with live steam and a scrubbing brush, cools it with a jet of water, snaps it out again for the next patron...
...Harvard Dramatic Society had some very fine days eight or nine years ago; I haven't heard of it at all lately," said Thornton Wilder, during a recess from the rehearsal and revision of his newest play, "A Merchant of Yonkers," which is finishing a tryout run in Boston this week...
Immediately after the Christmas recess, on the evening of January 4, the Freshman Register will be delivered to its 750 subscribers, Red Book Editor Eugene D. Keith announced yesterday...