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Benchley's statistics reveal "that practically nothing of consequence has been accomplished by its members in a quarter of a century. The Class has produced only one Bishop of Albania, or, at any rate, only one who later became Prime Minister. Only one member of the Class has caught a Giant Panda. We have only one Weather Man who advocates the "frontal method" (three dimensions) over the "surface method" (two dimensions). In all these years, only one member has been elected Village Clerk of Hewlett Harbor...
...know what they want done instead of keeping them in the dark, "the Government will at all times find us willing, with good will and loyalty, to do what they direct as though we were under legal compulsion." Meanwhile last week the tiny Papal State, the small Kingdom of Albania and the minute Republic of San Marino devalued their currencies in step with the Italian lira. In Berlin persistent rumors had Realmleader Adolf Hitler "greatly annoyed because Reichsbank President...
...this spring, when Father Schulte traveled to the U. S. on the Hindenburg and thereupon with papal permission celebrated the world's first aerial Mass (TIME. May 18), MIVA had acquired a dozen planes, more than 150 automobiles and motorboats which now ply among mission stations in Albania, Lettland, East, West and South Africa, Madagascar, Korea, New Guinea, Brazil and the Solomon Islands. Last week Father Schulte was in Manhattan, full of plans for adding northern Canada to MIVA's territory. During the summer, accompanied by Toronto Pilot Pat Howard, he flew an all-metal Junkers named Santa...
...Hitt, 50, racehorse owner, much-publicized daughter of West Virginia's late Senator Stephen Benton Elkins; in Manhattan. Long courted by the late Duke of Abruzzi, cousin of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III, she reputedly passed him up when he failed to get the throne of Albania...
Within these "qualitative" limits each of the Great Powers can build "quantitatively'' up to any battle power it pleases. In the Treaty are "escape clauses," so that if the signatories should discover, for example, that Albania was building a 100,000-ton Capital Ship with 40-in. guns, they would be automatically relieved of their obligations and could do likewise...