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...royal party journeyed by way of Geneva to Budapest amid whose Gypsy dance clubs Mrs. Simpson, in a dinner coat of spun glass, first became notable as his partner (TIME, March 11). Last week the Hungarian Secret Service recalled that during his visit last year only the most strenuous efforts kept out of newsorgans the fact that H. R. H. amused himself some evenings by standing in his bedroom in the Hotel Dunapalota and breaking the electric light bulbs in a room opposite with well-aimed shots from his pistol...
...correspondents into his private office to announce that Standard Oil was, after all, at the bottom of the Ethiopian woodpile. Obviously indignant, Secretary Hull declared: "The granting of this concession has been the cause of great embarrassment, not only to this Government but to other governments who are making strenuous and sincere efforts for the preservation of peace. . . . It [is] highly desirable that the necessary steps should be taken at the earliest possible moment to terminate the concession...
Horrifying to most conservative bankers was a proposal to ease the rules governing national bank investments in real estate mortgages. As everyone now knows. "frozen" real estate was one of the principal causes of the Depression banking debacle. And despite the strenuous opposition of Senators Glass & Adams, the original mortgage plan, slightly modified, is still in the Banking Bill...
...admired by the rest of us, Prexy Hutchins is backed, almost without exception, by a solid student body in his determined stand against the over-zealous news-gathering of a Knox-McCormick-Hearstian press. The majority of students are so intent upon fulfilling the strenuous academic requirements of this institution that they are quite indifferent to the radical tongue-wavings of the very few who apparently take sides not from any soul-deep conviction but for the notoriety of it. One might well suppose that if some of the outside alarmists were a little more exposed to any educational system...
...rather pathetic misunderstanding of the situation. It is to these last, some of whom may be among your readers, that I write. Of all the degrees given at Oglethorpe University, or by any other high-class college or university, the ones which require the hardest toil, the most strenuous application and the highest attainment, are the honorary degrees. . . . The conception underlying the conferring of honorary degrees is that the greatest university on earth is not Oxford nor Harvard nor Oglethorpe but the University of Life itself, sometimes called the University of Hard Knocks, sometimes the University of Experience. In this...