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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delicately over what was now admitted in Geneva to be virtually a demand by Dictator Kama! Atatürk ("Father of the Turks") that France hand over to him from her Syrian mandate the sanjak (district) of Alexandretta, scene of recent bloody riots (TIME, Jan. 18). Sagely observed a veteran League sec- retary, "Like everyone else, except the English and the French, the Turks have now become dynamic and got the 'gimmes.' Today they want Alexandretta, tomorrow it will be the oil fields of Mosul. The prairie fire of covetousness is spreading." ¶ After furious bickering...
Lyons turned out in the January American Mercury a dispassionate, detailed six-point analysis of how it happens that in the Soviet Union there is so much abject confessing of whatever it would do the Dictator good to have confessed. Mr. Lyons, veteran of innumerable Moscow trials, says in sum that Soviet prisoners who do not succeed in convincing the henchmen of Justice that they can be depended on to confess fairly convincingly in open court are never brought to trial at all, just taken downstairs and shot. Justice today, in Russian cases of importance, according to Mr. Lyons, does...
Back from Chief Rockwell came a sheet of White House stationery on which the White House's veteran penman, Adrian Barclay Tolley, had traced in spidery Spencerian the following message...
...checkup of the team's personnel reveals a fairly even distribution of strength in the various events. Lead by Olympic veteran Charles Hutter, the 50, 100, and 220 yard events will undoubtedly be fertile fields for Crimson harvests this winter. Intercollegiate champion in the 100, and holder of numerous other records, 'Hydroplane' Hutter shouldn't have to paddle through anybody's wash all year. In the 220, he will be ably supported by Ray Benedict and Darle Berizxi...
...remind veteran skiers and initiate novices the CRIMSON offers a guide to a few of the trails within striking distance of Cambridge. Many of these trails will be visited by the snow trains if and when winter comes; all the skiing centers may be reached by auto regardless of the amount of snow on the ground and the skier will find ample parking space at the foot of most of the trails. All trails in New Hampshire may be reached with ease by following Route Three from the Square to all points north...