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...what Sir John beamingly called a "novel plan," the report was split into two sections: 1) "History" and 2) "Recommendations" of which only the former was issued last week. Although a "best seller" and Conservative to the core, it drew from the arch-Conservative Morning. Post a comment which rather let the cat out of the bag: "This survey is so carefully balanced and so judicially vague that it is difficult to see to what it leads...
...Under Prime Minister Juliu Maniu a new cabinet was assembled last week, chiefly significant because it contains neither Field Marshal Averescu, Field Marshal Peter Presan, Professor Nicolae Iorga (once tutor to the King), or any other arch-Carolist. In effect the new Maniu cabinet is the same as his old one of fortnight ago, and his peasant party remains supreme in Rumanian politics. Impotent Vintila Bratianu, liberal leader and onetime Prime Minister, bitterest foe of Carol, was credited last week with shouting (at his Carolist nephew George Bratianu): "I'll kill Carol myself?with anything?with a kitchen knife...
...moment allowing his day to be spoiled, Mr. Zukor rode with Mrs. Zukor beamingly beneath a triumphal arch, down a quaint main street, finally reached the synagog. "Welcome, welcome, Mr. Zukor," cried the Mayor of Ricse, and added somewhat redundantly, "We hail you as the greatest citizen of our village!" ( He is in fact the world's foremost cinema executive, president of Paramount-Famous-Lasky...
Amtorg is a suite of offices on Manhattan's arch-respectable Fifth Avenue where businessmen from all over the U. S. deal with Red Russians who talk broken English but drive buying and selling bargains to a gross of $115,000,000 yearly...
...funeral procession of 60 coffins was staged last week, but when British police poked the corpses about half of them leaped from their coffins, ran. Magnificent was the restraint of police at Bombay, where thousands of St. Gandhi's sympathizers were allowed to parade past the great stone arch called "The Gateway of India," past the Royal Yacht Club, past the Taj Mahal Hotel...