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...their foreign policy to the apron strings of Downing Street. Last week French fiscal policy had been hitched, temporarily at least, to the apron strings of the Old Lady of Thread-needle Street, pending the arrival of Finance Minister Georges Bonnet. This nimble native of Dordogne, by far the ablest player of Basque pelota in the new Cabinet, will have his work cut out for him to get French finances in shape, but he seemed certain of broad cooperation. Under one of France's new social decrees drafted by Leon Blum and published last week by the Chautemps Cabinet...
...well as rich. He bargained the late John Roll McLean down from $360,000 to $180,000 for his wobbly Morning Journal and then proceeded to spend $7,500,000 combatting fiery Joseph Pulitzer's World on its own ground. He boldly bought away Pulitzer's ablest men, including Arthur Brisbane and Morrill Goddard, the genius who gave him the American Weekly. He made the Spanish-American War his personal affair for the Journal'?, sake. The transition of the old Journal into the American, effected in three steps between 1901 and 1903, followed an excess of boldness...
...always been a question in Paris whether the Red Army was good enough to make the present Franco-Soviet military alliance a worthwhile check to Germany-the eternal enemy. If the news from Moscow means that the Red Army has been immensely weakened by execution of its ablest leaders-and such in French General Staff headquarters was the opinion last week-then Paris must think somewhat of conciliating Berlin, and it would have been suicidal to yield to Communist demands that Premier Blum bestir himself to help the Spanish Popular Front. Last week for the first time since the World...
...languish-after the death of the most celebrated anti-evolutionist. Teacher Scopes was fined $100 (later remitted) and left Tennessee;* The Tennessee anti-evolution law still stands. Restrictive laws are also on the statute books of Mississippi an Arkansas. Dr. Oscar Riddle of the Carnegie Institution, one of the ablest biologists in the U. S., charges that there is even more pussyfooting in present-day textbooks than there was three decades...
...less publicized than Pitcher Dean, long, lean, left-handed Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants has a far higher rating for efficiency. Most startling of the many pitching statistics that prove Hubbell the ablest member of his profession currently performing was his record, started last July, of winning 24 league games in a row. Closest approach to this record was made in 1911-12 by Rube Marquard who won 20 straight games...