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...counted on by Britain were she attacked. The little states were asked to pass this on to Benito Mussolini but declined. Thereat Britain conveyed the information to Il Duce anyhow, with the unexpected result that Italy redoubled her threats and Britain agreed to "The Deal"-only to repudiate it afterward and leave Turkey, the Little Entente and Greece bitterly complaining to Geneva correspondents this week that they had been used as cats-paws by the British Lion. The meat of these disclosures was that Premier Mussolini had convinced the British Admiralty that if oil or other crucial sanctions be applied...
...election was won. Shortly afterward "The Deal" to make peace by dismembering Ethiopia was agreed to in Paris by British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare (TIME, Dec. 16). It was approved by the entire Baldwin Cabinet. It was officially presented at Geneva by the British Minister for League of Nations Affairs, Anthony Eden. It was formally delivered to the Italian Government and to the Ethiopian Government by the chiefs of the French and British diplomatic missions, together with urgent advice that it be accepted by Haile Selassie and Benito Mussolini. It was published as a White Paper with the imprimatur...
...embarrassing questions by the Court. Not so John P. Bullington, attorney for the rice millers, who was peppered with interrogations from liberal members of the bench. To prove his clients' right to an injunction Lawyer Bullington explained that if the rice millers paid the tax and it was afterward declared unconstitutional they could not get their money back. The law permits refunds only to processors who can prove they have not passed on the processing taxes to the public. In the nature of the rice milling business, he contended, no one could tell, much less prove, whether...
...been a cosmetician since at 13 he left a Russian synagog school to become an apprentice make-up boy in a traveling opera troupe. He built a cosmetics factory in Russia, exhibited in the 1904 St. Louis Exposition, lost his money, started again from scratch in Los Angeles shortly afterward. Friendly, willing in the pioneer days of the cinema to deliver personally a 50? stick of grease paint, Factor established his business on the firm basis of getting exclusive endorsements for his products. Mabel Normand was once his No. 1 endorser. Today nearly every important cinemactress, except Greta Garbo, Marlene...
...sometimes allow students to take an advanced instead of an elementary course if they are on the Dean's list and willing to go through reams of red tape, these exceptions are woefully rare. Any man, for example, who has taken History 5 has no business taking Government 1 afterward, unless he definitely wants to or is congenitally lazy...