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Debts & Arms. One thing upon which U. S. opinion of every shade seemed undivided was this: that quite as connected de facto as Debts and Reparations are Debts and Disarmament. This connection Europe continued to deny. Last month after his White House conference with Governor Roosevelt, who rejected War Debt responsibility as "not his baby," President Hoover declared...
...reminded more than once of another war, when Arabs, counseled by a stranger as wily, energetic and heroic as Odysseus, fought against the Turks for an idea as beautiful to him as Helen; may well have remembered some of his banished names when he wrote Odysseus' words to the shade of Agamemnon: "What an army of us died for Helen...
...University in Eliot House. Speaking on the subject of living conditions here and abroad, in which he is particularly interested, Lipson said: "There is, I suppose, a feeling that high thinking goes best with plain living, or that the student for whom life is made perhaps a shade too pleasant, is not being best fitted for the rough and tumble of the world outside. Personally, I do not share this view. For one thing, I believe that it is eminently desirable that men should be able to enjoy during their student days, which are usually the happiest period in their...
...medium he is requested by a banker to ask the late great John Pierpont Morgan what he thinks about the Moratorium. "Don't know anything about it," replies the shade of Mr. Morgan. "You better take the Berengaria." Mr. Carroll excites whoops of enjoyment from spectators aware of the city's political situation with a Jimmy Walker song ending: You can have your City Hall, I'll take A. C. Blumenthal...
...moment of reflection" and that he vished to see him. The meeting took place last week and Untouchable Dr. Ambdekar as well as high-caste Hindu leaders were apparently moved beyond endurance by the piteous sight of the Mahatma quivering on a cot in the prison yard beneath the shade of a mango tree. One & all they rushed away to patch up with the Raj some sort of settlement to which the Mahatma would agree...