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...banquet had been tendered by massive President Dr. Gabriel Terra of Uruguay to Secretary of State Cordell Hull and the nine other foreign ministers of American countries at the Conference. To seat the 200 statesman-guests, each jealous of his rank, was the ticklish job of Senor Carlos de Yeregui, mincing-mannered Uruguayan Chef de Protocols. In plenty of time before the banquet Senor Yeregui called his limousine, set out from his office with the 200 precious place cards and the indispensable seating list. Chuckling, Montevideo's merry Communists stopped Senor Yeregui's car, forced his chauffeur...
...Bailie (a professional landscape architect, daughter of Lawyer Henderson) their three children and French poodle, Jasper, he arranged to move from his duplex apartment on Park Avenue to a house in Washington. ("Now," said Mr. Bailie, "Jasper will have a back yard to play in.") He also tackled the ticklish job of refinancing $727.000.000 of Government securities that fall due in December-a job made difficult by what Mr. Morgenthau had done to devalue the dollar. Not wanting any unnecessary dollar-doubts to circulate, Mr. Bailie promptly made known that the December financing would be carried out without resort...
...State Department conferences followed one another, Commissar Litvinoff came to realize that the trip was not to be entirely a bed of Red roses. He wanted to sign first and talk about details later. The State Department wanted to talk first, for an inquisitive Senate would have many a ticklish question to ask before it passed a recognition treaty, and sign later. When Secretary Hull sailed away to the Pan-American Congress, President Roosevelt took formal charge of the negotiations...
...development of this idea. He replaced the classical equations for electron motion with new differential equations similar to those which describe the wave motion which constitutes light and sound. Thus the atom is conceived as a positive nucleus wrapped in a throbbing field of negative electricity. To expound these ticklish ideas to U. S. scientists slim, smallish, pleasant-spoken Dr. Schrodinger journeyed to the U. S. few years ago, lectured at Caltech and other universities in excellent English. Born and educated in Vienna, he was professor of theoretical physics at Stuttgart and Zurich before joining the faculty of the University...
Awarding a Nobel Prize, especially in literature, is a ticklish business. Only international prize of its kind, its bestowal on any world-citizen is regarded as a triumph for that citizen's country. Whether or not the Committee deals out its favors impartially, it obviously tries to rotate them. Last year the Nobel Prize in Literature went to England (the late John Galsworthy), the year before to Sweden (Erik Axel Karlfeldt), year before that to the U. S. (Sinclair Lewis). This year for the first time it went to a man without a country...