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Felix Frankfurter, prominent member of the Brain Trust, said in a recent interview, that in these days the simple virtues of honesty and public devotion are not enough to unravel the tangled skein of social and economic complexities which are too tied up with intricate and technical facts to be solved on the level of feeling and rhetoric...
...already confused skein of Balkan politics has been further tangled by the announcement that a four power pact including Greece, Turkey, Roumania, and Jugoslavia is contemplated and that, in anticipation of this, preliminary conversations have taken place. This has followed two years of hectic activity by Balkan diplomats during which the alliance commitments of the different states have changed as rapidly, as unexpectedly, and as inexplicably as a Cambridge winter...
...heavy fury to emphasize the lightning brain. There is the eraser, the pointer, the gentleman wearing the hat, the other nine hundred and ninety nine, and all arrive at unity through the ability of Professor Merriman. There is the calm precision of Professor Tucker as he unravels the skein of English literature. There is Mr. De Vote reducing the sophomore to a sentimental pot pourri with his tolerant cynicism. There is the deep thunder of Professor Holcombe, inevitable and inviolate as the Monroe Doctrine, settling down over the Carribean. There is the deep rapture and breath taking enthusiasm of Professor...
...last week a great northbound skein of wild whistling swans (less rare than the trumpeting species) settled upon Niagara River above the falls to spend the night. A stiff breeze that had been blowing upstream fell away. In the morning, rivermen found the icy gorge below the falls strewn with dead swans. Some 50 survivors sat huddled on the floes. Despite restraining efforts by officials of the Queen Victoria Park Commission, Riverman William ("Red") Hill, famed survivor of two trips through Niagara's rapids in a barrel (TIME, July 13), picked his way out on thence, frightened the foolish...
...real estate companies with properties throughout Europe, including 87 buildings in Stockholm. By selling control of L. M. Ericsson Telephone Co. (acquired in 1930) to International Telephone & Telegraph for 400,000 shares of I. T. & T. stock, Ivar Kreuger connected his empire with the worldwide communications skein of the Behn Brothers...