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...second wave of Moscow indignation against Washington broke two days later last week, apropos the Chinese Eastern Railway. Barely two months have passed since the State Department tried to smooth over this Asiatic crisis by invoking the Kellogg Pact, only to receive a sharp snub from the Soviet Foreign Office (TIME, Dec. 16). Moscow is still convinced that Washington acted from "unfriendly motives," believes too that U. S. Railroader John J. Mantell went to China for no other purpose than to destroy Russia's sphere of influence over the railway by fair means or foul (TIME, Sept...
...accounting for the snub, Osservatore avoided the real reason, scathingly suggested that the Italian press now has no room for the pronouncements of His Holiness because it devotes its space to "reports of prize fights and raids on houses of ill fame...
...costly sheen of the fur coats behind the thick plateglass, is one of the most expensive, the most profitable in Oslo. As a boy he liked to ride bicycles, and won the world's amateur championship at Antwerp in 1893. Pleased that his little girl had inherited a snub nose from her Irish grandmother, he taught her to skate when she was seven...
...attitude of the comptroller's office toward the whole affair is typical of a certain unenlightened group, unfortunately still large in the University, which believes that the best way to treat the newspapers is to snub them. Harvard does not need to go out deliberately seeking favorable publicity, but on the other hand, there can be little excuse for such obvious mishandling of press relations as that which occurred yesterday...
Because of his quixotic, personal resentment at the high tariff utterances of Calvin Coolidge and his successor in the White House, President Irigoyen still refuses to send an Argentine Ambassador to Washington, seemingly in the hope that by persisting in this snub he will sooner or later make President Hoover unhappy. Though the Argentine Treasury has ample funds, quixote Irigoyen's dislike of paying bills is such that for months he has held up payments to the State's legitimate creditors. In British shipyards lie two destroyers, ordered and approved by the Argentine Government. Congress has voted the money...