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Prime Minister Karolyi scoured the avenues and the alleys but was unable to find a Minister of Finance. Count Bethlen grew highly excited and said that Count Karolyi must succeed in making a Cabinet, at least for a time. Count Karolyi dutifully tried again, finally succeeded by taking the thankless post of Finance Minister himself. Newspapers called his Cabinet a "shadowgraph" of Count Bethlen's Cabinet. Blase Prague expected to see the fluttering brown burgee of Bethlen's mustache leading another Hungarian Cabinet before long...
...Author. LeRoy MacLeod, once an adman like Sherwood Anderson, founded the advertising agency of Waters & MacLeod (Los Angeles), retired from it in 1929 to cultivate the thankless muse. Three Steeples is his first novel, but he has also written a book of verse, Driven, which called forth from his great & good friend Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols, English poet, the statement that MacLeod is "the only United States poet I have known with the 'Hardy' quality...
...French Department, faced with a thankless task, deserves sympathy. As the educational authorities who have written in recent issues of the CRIMSON on the transition from school to college have pointed out, the product of the preparatory schools is often inadequately prepared in the rudiments of French, German, and Spanish, and so long as this continues to be the case elementary language courses will be necessary. The University, moreover, justly thinks first in French 2 of a well-rounded reading knowledge, though the extent to which this is secured is open to question...
...Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, "The Lion of Lorraine," greatest statesman of the Right, who was forced by illness to resign on the eve of the Hague Reparations Parley (TIME, Aug. 5). Left cannot lead for long where Right has led. In the Hague emergency M. Briand accepted the thankless, tightrope-walking task. Last week with the curt frankness of an aging, tired man, he told the Deputies that he knew they would soon oust him, begged them in the name of common sense not to do so until the Young Reparations Plan approved at the Hague Conference had been...
...hard, thankless job. . . . There are some who will count me just another 'out' in the game; others will say 'she made a sacrifice hit.' ... As President Roosevelt said: 'Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords...