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...more tact and more charm which was to stand him in good stead when his diplomatic career began again. Nowadays Mrs. Phillips is rated rather snobbish, but obstinate would be a better word for it. She refuses to wear glasses although she is so shortsighted that she cannot recognize her best friends across a room. As his hostess in Washington when Woodrow Wilson called him back to the State Department just before the War, as his hostess at The Hague when he was appointed Minister to The Netherlands (1920), in Brussels when he became Ambassador to Belgium...
...last January's legislative coup d'etat. By a rotten borough system Republicans had always held control of the State Senate, and by an ingenious law, the Senate, if it did not wish to confirm the Governor's appointees, could name other officers in their stead. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor might be Democrats, the General Assembly might be controlled by a Democratic majority, but Republicans still ran Rhode Island. Such was the situation in 1933 and 1934. One afternoon last January, when Governor Theodore F. Green was to take office for the second time, Democrats challenged...
...Nazis who everyone believes set fire to the Reichstag (TIME. March 6, 1933. et seq.). It was assumed that innocent Communists could be browbeaten before the German Supreme Court into confessing that they had set the fire, or at least that their mouths could be stopped by execution. In stead the Supreme Court acquitted all except the half-witted Dutchman Marinus van der Lubbe. During the trial, fiery Bulgarian Dimitroff not only studied German judicial procedure and earned the right to defend himself but hurled it with such withering invective at No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Premier...
...field such as the Fine Arts, the material which he will have acquired by the time he receives his diploma will always stand him in good stead--with one possible exception: he will find it a questionable asset in earning his living. I think it is highly debatable whether the Fine Arts can be considered a profession--it is rather, a "cause." Not that there aren't many jobs connected with the Fine Arts which have in the past, and will in the future, yield a tidy income; but in the first place these jobs are few and far between...
...aboard a yacht, where he saves her from a couple of thugs; she says, "Why are you so cold and distant?"; he says, "O. K. Toots;" she says, "You dance divinely;" he says, "Aw, gee;" she says, "haven't you ever felt that you wanted to be loved?" In stead they return to attend the premiere of her "Caribbean Love." Also attending is Talbot's girl, Hoather Augel, accompanied by a phony prince, whom Miss Michael has jilted for Talbot. Everything turns out all right, though. Miss Michael sails for Europe, and Talbot and Heather Augel open a garage Life...