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Juanita loves good food, refers constantly to her fare: "No body can cook cabbage to beat the Irish of Cork not even the American Colored Southerners." Sometimes a new dish led her on a little too far. In Brno, Czechoslovakia "I ate too many dill pikles but the dancing got it down." She saw all the sights. In Madrid, it was bullfighting ("Bull fighting and ice cream are the two best things on earth"); in India, the Taj Mahal ("I would just like to put a glass over it I feel I must cover it over...
Last year Dr. Samuel Weiller Fernberger, University of Pennsylvania psychology professor, visited the monks of Mendel's monastery. War had shifted the land from Austria to Czechoslovakia, and the town's name had been changed from Brünn to Brno. Of the thousands of peas with which he had worked. Mendel had preserved and mounted only six, and half of these the monastery had lost or given away. Tactfully the professor told the pious men how, at his university, fruitful researches based on Mendel's laws were going vigorously forward. The monks decided...
...Santiago, Chile, El Impartial pointed out that the U. S., Britain and France were by no means the only countries guilty of keeping the slaughter going. Holland and Norway have sold the fighters rifle ammunition, Denmark. Madsen machine guns. Sweden, Bofors cannon. Spain, Oviedo rifles, Czechoslovakia's Brno Works, automatic rifles. How Paraguay paid for all this remained a mystery. Bolivia has financed the war without recourse to extreme taxation, entirely on tin, her greatest export...
Skoda, although its main works are in Brno (which was once on Austrian territory), has factories scattered not only over Czechoslovakia but over Poland and Rumania as well. Upon the board of Skoda, which the Union Europeenne controls through 56 per cent of its stock, M. Schneider sits with his friend Andre Vicaire, Director General of Schneider-Creusot; his brother-in-law, Arnold de Saint-Sauveur; Eduard Benes, who, as Czechoslovakia's Foreign Minister, takes second place to no one in the vocal support he lends to the League of Nations; teresting to note in view of later facts, very...
Because he has several times been Finance Minister, a mere suggestion let fall last week by Professor Englis of Brno Law School was enough to force down 7% on international exchange the Czechoslovak crown which has remained rock firm on gold for the last twelve years...