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French Concessions- To help hasten this return, France granted reductions in 19 rates. Duty on grapefruit and automobile chassis was halved. Reductions of smaller and varying percentages were made on sewing-machine heads, canned asparagus, spark plugs, dried prunes, fountain pens, raisins, cash registers and unsweetened pineapple juice (the French obtain their sweetened juice from French West Africa and Guadeloupe). A 75% reduction was made for canned pilchards (sardines), U. S. exports of which in late years have been too negligible for anyone to list. French quotas were enlarged on 44 U. S. products including fresh apples and pears, false...
Since that time much water has gone under the bridge and Mr. Edge has gone over the dam into history as Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to France. Last April he and his pretty young wife returned from a world cruise in time for the asparagus season. Last week, the season of his favorite vegetable having closed, he sailed to enjoy the grouse season in Scotland. Standing on the deck of the Normandie, he swelled his chest, flapped his elbows and spoke once more of the firing line: "I want a month's rest so that I can come...
...proceeded with levity through the streets of Heidelberg and noisily entered a restaurant full of devout listeners to the broadcast, one Saxo-Borussian pretending to use a champagne bottle as a trumpet. Thirdly, the Saxo-Borussians, amid much loud discussion, made a distinction between the correct way of eating asparagus and Adolf Hitler's way of eating asparagus...
...prosecutor, infringed the Saxo-Borussians' obligations toward the German people and the University of Heidelberg. Accordingly all Saxo-Borussians were ordered set back two years in their studies at Old Heidelberg, with expulsion for the ringleader who incited others to disparage Dictator Hitler's handling of asparagus...
Instead of smartly biting off the tip, or cutting it off with a knife and conveying it to his lips with a fork, Vegetarian Hitler picks up a stalk of asparagus with his fingers, inserts the tip between his lips, sucks vigorously, frequently consuming the entire stalk. Since most thrifty, common Germans, when they get a chance at asparagus, eat it in exactly this fashion, Realmleader Hitler again stood vindicated last week as "The Apotheosis of The Common...