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Thanks for turning up the item (in your issue of Aug. 11) about Fascist soldiers firing on a rescue party of St. Bernard monks, ft did not appear in any of the dailies I read. . . . My greatest (presumably unattainable) ambition as a modern woman with civilized tastes: to snub Mussolini...
...Joseph Sabath in Chicago last week stood Mrs. Charles Bamberger and Mrs. William Watkins, participants in a prolonged public dispute as to the identity of their respective babies after an apparent mix-up at a Chicago maternity hospital (TIME, July 28,et seq.). Each mother held a blue-eyed, snub-nosed son in her arms. Judge Sabath signed an order giving to each legal possession of the child she held. Yet he was still uncertain in his own mind as to which baby was which. Since there were two children, the famed maternity case of Harlot v. Harlot as decided...
...Grand Mufti of the Palestine Arabs had left London for home in a huff. What if the blighter was angry at Prime Minister MacDonald's refusal to grant certain demands? Merely this-the Grand Mufti, of course, is a Mohammedan. No sooner did news of Britain's snub to the Mufti reach troubled India (see above) than powerful 'Mohammedan elements, previously lukewarm toward St. Gandhi, a Hindu, began to throw their influence on the side of his campaign for Independence. Shouts of "Long live the Mufti! Down with British rule in Palestine!" were raised by Mohammedan crowds...
...Trinity Church on Copley Square. In personal attitude Bishop-elect Sherrill is considered high-church. New York. Since the death of his suffragan, Herbert Shipman, in March, Bishop William Thomas Manning of the Diocese of New York has been seeking a complaisant successor. Last week he received a harsh snub from Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 61, editor of the denominationally liberal Chronicle (monthly) who had been suggested for the post. Dr. Cummins con siders Bishop Manning theocratic. Said he: "I have no desire to be errand boy for Bishop Manning...
Intense was the relief of Argentine citizens last week when their President, Señor Hipolito Irigoyen, an arch individualist who fears neither God, Man nor the Devil, decided that he would merely snub President Herbert Hoover, by refusing to speak to him on the telephone...