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Going further, Dr. von Schinckel hurled a thinly veiled reproof at Nazi policies. "Dissatisfaction in the outside world toward Germany and the boycott movement are making themselves strongly felt." said he. "This has severely hurt the Hamburg-American Line's business and is continuing to hurt it and German shipping generally. . ". . My colleagues and I are resigning with regret. It is not our way to be leaving the company when things are going badly but developments have left us no choice...
Says Wassermann: Columbus was a poor administrator, a hopelessly lax disciplinarian. When his men had smoked so much tobacco they were unable to work, his reproof was mild. Said he: "What sort of satisfaction you can get from a sort of smouldering tube is more than I can understand." No land but gold was Columbus' quest: from his first voyage he brought back little, promises of much more. On his first return to Spain he was made, according to previous agreement, High Admiral of Spain, Viceroy of the Indies, given a coat of arms,* his family raised forever...
...collectors. Over a long period of years, perhaps as much as $250,000,000 worth of works of art have left England for the U. S. This fact has caused sentimental Britons to feel pangs of regret and it last week caused Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, to offer caustic reproof rather than sympathy to the sentimental Britons. Wrote rich Mr. Brisbane, whose splendid homes are by no means bare of pictures...
...reproof of U. S. shipping conditions was the speech of Baron Kylsant, at the annual meeting of the White Star Line, Ltd. in London last week. Two years ago he bought the 25 White Star Line ships from the most important U. S. shipping enterprise, J. P. Morgan's International Mercantile Marine Co. for ?7,000,000 (TIME, May 17, 1926, et seq.). Last year he predicted a profitable year for the White Star Line under British ownership...
...Edward III (1312-77). Down and down slipped the garter until it tumbled before the knowing eyes of a pack of smirking courtiers. But Edward III, with instant chivalry, stooped, retrieved the ribbon, tied it just below his own royal knee, and exclaimed to the Courtiers in immortal reproof: "Honi soit qui mal y pense!" (Evil be to him who evil thinks...