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Similar to the U. S. Book-of-the-Month Club is the Book Society of England, but its officials are frequently remiss in their labors. Without carefully reading the manuscript. Book Society officials picked for their May selection Coronation Commentary by Geoffrey Dennis, ordered 10,000 copies. The title was perfectly timed. Of the author, the officials knew that he was Editor & Chief of the Document Service of the League of Nations Secretariat, well-versed in the history and procedure of the British Crown, author of many a forceful magazine article, and husband of a great-niece of Dante Gabriel...
...Governor La Follette, through his regents, found President Frank remiss and inefficient, President Frank found Governor La Follette sordidly partisan, politically biased, dangerously dictatorial. ''Certain forces in Wisconsin" he rebutted, "want a Fascist kind of university administration.'' Patiently diagramming educational statistics which the fidgeting regents did not want to hear, he defended his decade's record at Wisconsin, cited higher enrollments, higher average graduate accomplishments in the professions. His newspaper writing, said Glenn Frank, occupied only three hours a week and forced him to broaden his reading: speaking outside the State, once a month...
...blind wards be punished. Miss Hunt also carried her story to the New York State Department of Education which removed all New York's children from Mrs. Kraeuter's care. Last week the New Jersey Department of Institutions & Agencies called Superintendent Kraeuter to account, found her less remiss in management than in experience. She was permitted to resign after defending these disciplines...
...week, dismantling the heavy siege guns to ship them proudly back to Japan, first tangible trophies of her bloody Shanghai invasion.* Japanese headquarters gave a novel explanation of the shipment: the guns were originally made in Japanese arsenals. They were being paid for on the instalment plan. China was remiss in her instalments therefore Japan, like any piano company, was repossessing her goods. Japanese authorities last week made amends for assaults on two U. S. citizens. The car of U. S. Trade Commissioner H. D. Robison was smashed by an army truck (TIME, March 14). Commissioner Robison was punched...
...chief magistrate of the state, to jail newshawks for contempt if they continued to pester him for a premature decision. With but one allusion to the playboy Mayor's "careless standards of public life," the City Affairs Committee complained that New York's chief executive had been remiss in administering the Departments of Standards & Appeals, Licenses. Health, Hospital, Budget, Docks, in all of which have been scandals or near-scandals during his regime. It was also charged that Mayor Walker had "failed to display the slightest interest in a situation which was . . . destroying the confidence of citizens...