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Elected. Thomas Sovereign Gates, one-time Morgan partner, President of the University of Pennsylvania: to be President of the reorganized board of directors of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, thus ending the Stokowski squabble (TIME, Dec. 24) in Stokowski's favor...
...with contractual rights and that the whole scheme is but a bald proposal to relieve debtors at the expense of creditors, and as such amounts to deprivation of property without due process of law. The only solid line of defense for the Government rests in the supposition that the sovereign power over money and foreign commerce must not be hamstrung by pre-existing arrangements by contract. Congress, New Dealers contend, may abrogate rights arising under a contract when such action is reasonably necessary to carry out some proper legislative object...
...favor he had refused fortnight ago to dismiss a number of officers as demanded by War Minister General Zlateff, presumably at the suggestion of the Veltcheff-Gueorguieff dictatorship. General Zlateff did a little scouting on his own, then with a shrill whistle of surprise swung to his sovereign's side. It was a wise move. Last week Little Tsar Boris was strong enough to dismiss the entire dictatorship and make repentant Zlateff Premier of a Cabinet that has for its sole platform loyalty to the Tsar...
...Actually it has a small safe in which the directors keep, as a solemn joke, two coins: a 25? California gold piece (genuine) and a Spanish sovereign (counterfeit...
...unsuccessful participants, however, in international affairs," he said, "because of three factors: our suspicion that the other fellow is going to put over some Machiavellian trick on us; our Senate cannot move deftly and rapidly enough to keep pace with the international parleys and agreements; and our fear for sovereign rights...