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Wets: He received a group of Missouri Wets whose spokesman afterward declared : "We are thoroughly satisfied. . . . He believes that prohibition is a dead issue...
...just as Madrid was in mortal danger of falling to the Whites (see p. 34). Should it fall without either Stanley Baldwin or Joseph Stalin having done anything to uphold Spanish Democracy or Spanish Bolshevism-these being matters of the point of view-what was Mr. Baldwin to say afterward to British devotees of Democracy, and what was Comrade Stalin to say to Russian enthusiasts for Bolshevism? In this doubly paradoxical dilemma a suave British finesse and a crude Russian demarche had been prepared, ready to be sprung when there met in the British Foreign Office last week...
...this "fireside talk" quality of the Marquess of Linlithgow's speech-afterward broadcast in native tongues-which popularly caught on, but the speech also contained extraordinarily meaty and precise encouragement and instructions for thousands of Britons and Indians performing all sorts of functions vital to the Raj. For example the District Officers, many of them Britons of fine calibre doing their best for local Indian communities but harassed by having to write interminable reports to the Centre, were given a kindly hint by the Viceroy to ease up on this scrivening and get out on more camping trips among...
...crashed in the bush, was provisioned by parachute and rescued by a special safari. Last June he was appointed to a crack experimental group at Farnborough. In his flight last week he carried a silver figurine of St. Christopher as mascot, relished his narrow squeak, as he explained afterward, because "flying is the only thing that promises excitement, thrills and speed." When officials calibrated his instruments, they found that he had climbed to 49,967 ft., well above both the recognized world record of 47,352 ft. set by Italy's Renato Donati in 1934 and the unofficial mark...
...contested in Atlantic City, N. J. by skeptical creditors (TIME, Sept. 7), onetime film Panjandrum William Fox, who claims he has to borrow cash to live on, explained: "As of Jan. 1, 1930, I was under the impression I was worth about $100,000,000. . . . But I found soon afterward I had estimated wrong...