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Through the current hearings on the Glenn Frank case the nation can scize its opportunity to grasp the issues involved. Clarification of these issues has been overdue since the first whispers of the controversy burst into a roar heard far beyond the borders of Wisconsin. The core of the conflict is simple. The Regents must decide whether the undeniable progress made by the University under Frank's direction outweighs the President's alleged mismanagement of intra-University disputes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THUNDER ROLLS ON | 1/8/1937 | See Source »

...both appeals to a wide sector of every audience, and gives free play to his peculiar talents. The modesty of the character in his circumstances and of the actor in his histrionics are bound to be winning. Ant then a certain embarrassed chuckle, sometimes developing into a full-grown roar, is the answer to every complex situation and is just as effective in provoking mirth as lines of clever comment could be. While Mr. Cohan's horse sense and homely goodness are well-calculated to captivate the middle-aged security-lovers in audience and play, it is not so easy...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/6/1937 | See Source »

...Commons. Why is it 'impossible' that the desire of the King, who does not ask that Mrs. Simpson become queen but only his morganatic wife, should be granted by parliamentary vote or at least submitted to such a vote?'' Fleet Street: This week London presses roar with the flat prediction of Viscount Rothermere that morganatic marriage of the Sovereign will be made possible by the Mother of Parliaments and if necessary also by the daughter Parliaments of the Dominions. Yet London editors go sleepless, reporters exhaust themselves and the Cabinet is reported split three ways within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Edvardus Rex | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...Rapped on the galvanized iron side of an unemployed workers' school hut and drew a laugh by asking the men with the mock roar of an Army sergeant, "ANY COMPLAINTS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Errand of Mercy | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Minister-President Hermann Wilhelm Goring cocked his large snook last month in Berlin to roar: "Our colonies have been stolen from us! ... Britain has one-third of the world as her colonies. . . . Also our gold has been stolen from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Snooks Cocked | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

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