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Colonial--"He", Alfred Savoir's latest with Claude Rains, Tom Powers, and Violet Kemble-Cooper of "Applecart" fame...
What had he really said? If correctly quoted he had indeed upset the nicely balanced applecart of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's ticklish Indian policy. There is little doubt that Scot MacDonald wants to give India the semi-independent status of Canada, but he does not dare. His majority in the House of Commons is too slim to risk on the Indian issue. Therefore, the canny Scot prompted the Viceroy, Baron Irwin. to make a carefully weaseled proclamation (TIME, Nov. 18). Some of it was supposed to convince Indians that their aspirations will presently be realized; some...
...Schacht, having upset the applecart, set about picking up the apples. Within 24 hours he announced that he (i.e., the Reichsbank) would supply the needed cash. The political neck of Optimist Hilferding seemed saved and the whole affair might have passed off as a teapot-tempest, except for the famed Berliner Tageblatt whose editor announced that he possessed the inside story, upset the apples again...
Molinet of Cornell steered his big, red and rejuvenated applecart against a Penn team which wavered in the first half, and came out with locker-room courage after the intermission to tie the score with a field goal and a touchdown...
...Coloombia! Coloombia!" The cry, springing from a myriad throats, made Cornell rooters recoil. Not since 1905 has that cry drowned the klaxons of Cornell's red applecart, but last Saturday, with Rieger's 70-yard trip to glory, and the good right toe of Captain Madden, Columbia came from behind a 9-0 lead...