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...November things were different. On the one hand losses in Germany's general election shrank the Hitler Party, still largest, from 230 to 195 Reichstag seats. On the other hand, popular hatred and unrest at the reactionary policies of the "Cabinet of Monocles" forced Chancellor von Papen to resign (TIME, Nov. 28). When Der Osaf* was summoned a second time to the Presidential Palace he was bidden to sit down by Der Reichspräsident for what Germans call a "conference of four eyes"-i. e. not even a secretary was present. Called in for a moment, State Secretary...
...ratify the League Covenant in America was the provision setting up armed sanctions against nations who violated the peace. With the late mistaken venture into the morasses of European diplomacy and politics still uppermost in their memories, the American people were taken with a fever of isolationism. They shrank quite excusably from any agreement that might result in more bloodshed for themselves or for their sons. Later interpretation, especially from the British government, drew the offending claws from the Government, but the question of sanctions is still paramount in the world's attempt to keep the peace. In selecting this...
Spectators and newsmen shrank back in fear of what might happen if these angry thousands turned violent. The plaza remained uncleared. Waters was brought out and exhibited to his followers. He surlily refused to command them to retreat. Dangerous tension was broken when a buxom, yellow-haired woman leaped to the stand. She was Marotta Arsonis, a New York trained nurse who had befriended the B. E. F. Seizing a megaphone, she yelled: "Be calm, men! Be calm! Let's sing." She tuned up with "America...
...Boston firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. formed Lee, Higginson Trust Co. Last week this trust company prepared to go out of business, announced it will pay all depositors in full, transfer trust accounts. Between Dec. 31, 1930 and March 31 of this year its deposits shrank from $15,000,000 to $7,600,000. Chairman is George Cabot Lee, grandson of the original John Clarke Lee of Lee & Higginson. Its president is Francis C. Gray. On its board are Frank Gilman Allen, onetime (1929-31) Governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Nelson Perkins of Boston & Maine R. R., President Louis Edmund Zacher...
...Some of us women shrank from the characterization, were indignant about the injustice of it. We tried to think of ways to persuade public and press to give us a fairer, more accurate description. We failed. 'Wet' was brief, 'Wet' was easy, 'Wet' would fit neatly into headlines. And so we were fated to be 'Wets' to the end of the story...