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...news that Dr. Hanfstaengl has offered Harvard a $1000 scholarship for study in Germany presents the College with a ticklish situation. If the Nazi official's desire is genuine, its refusal will seem a personal insult but acceptance under any circumstances will raise a storm of protest. Of course, it would seem that a real love for his alma mater would have caused him to refrain from raising this furore; certainly he should not have released the announcement to the newspapers before action had been taken. Nevertheless the question must be decided...
...action in barring Negroes from the Restaurant. He spoke for 20 minutes, but while he was speaking the 145th signature was added to Congressman De Priest's petition. Whether it liked it or not, the House was thus forced to stand up and be counted on a most ticklish issue next week...
...they alighted. Then he sent men with toy balloons on long strings to frighten the starlings from the ledges. The starlings cheeped derisively. In despair he wrote the Department of Agriculture.* Last week the Department suggested that the only remedy might be to use deadly hydrocyanic acid gas-a ticklish job necessitating careful preparations lest Congressmen and bystanders fall dead. Architect Lynn then persuaded the Department's Biological Survey officially to classify the starlings as pests. It is the duty of the Survey to destroy pests. So a gas attack on the Capitol was planned for some midnight this...
...thought he ought to be happy. But Walter was no fool. He had not worked for Tasker long before he knew his boss was a crook. But by that time he was an accessory to many a damning irregularity. As he watched Tasker pull himself out of one ticklish position after another, Walter began to hope that everything would eventually be all right. But even Tasker could not beat the Depression. The inevitable rumor started the inevitable investigation. Tasker's companies collapsed. More families went on the dole. Boss Tasker and Cat's-Paw Walter went to jail...
...Sugar Co. and headed a construction company which got a big job out of Hoover Dam.* Last week, aged 43, Marriner Eccles came to the Treasury as special assistant to Secretary Morgenthau-to advise him how to finance the greatest peacetime deficit. But Earle Bailie, forced to resign that ticklish job because of Senatorial objections to his Wall Street connections (TIME, Jan. 15), stayed on long enough to advise on last week's momentous gold-doings. Mormon Marriner Eccles, in good standing with the Twelve Apostles of his church, also gets credit for liberalism because he favors large emergency...