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Representative James Montgomery ("Constitution") Beck: "It should be called the Wicked Sham Commission...
Sought out by London reporters, asked to comment, Sir Harry began to chuckle, broke into a giggle, finally roared with laughter-his only comment. Critic Gibbs flays his countrymen in general for reacting to jibes or criticism which they feel keenly "by a sham display of pretended amusement...
Yale pleads for a discarding of pretence. Its team must, "either be first rate or else admit a change of viewpoint and will fully take a back seat." As long ago as early October, we made the same plea in regard to the hollow sham and empty gesture of deferred practice. It has failed miserably of its purpose: and because early season games on the next two year's schedule are already arranged, the 15th of September ruling must go and one pretence at least be removed. When the mortgaged future has elapsed, we earnestly recommend an abbreviated schedule...
Next day the Commission's deadlock remained unbroken. Chairman Wicker-sham's good humor deserted him. He shouldered his way home through a blockade of newsmen with a curt "nothing...
...over Russia one day last week, Communist manifestants paraded the streets in bellicose array, displaying gas masks, small arms, sundry war materiel. Overhead, Red planes swung across the sky, on land there were military maneuvers, at sea Red warships wallowed in sham battle. Paradoxically, the parading crowds carried banners not praising war but decrying it; the Red planes dove, not to loose steel and nitroglycerine eggs, but to dump fluttering leaves of peace propaganda. The occasion: International Anti-War Day, held on the 16th anniversary of mobilization for the World War (Aug. 1). At Moscow the climax...