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...pair of full-length broadcasts to the world by himself and Hitler, significance of the big show was well charted in advance. The mere fact that II Duce and Der Führer were laying their heads together had cooled off the recent hot British and French determination to browbeat Italy on the Mediterranean "piracy" issue (TIME, Sept. 27). Masked by the eruption of news from Berlin last week, there met in Paris quietly a conference of Italian, French and British naval experts-with Russia pointedly excluded. According to Paris dispatches, Britain and France were now ready to concede...
...opium smoking, cured himself of this habit at the age of 62. Others can do likewise if they are determined!" As the Generalissimo and Premier of China, Chiang Kaishek, was not answering the telephone or reading his mail or telegrams during the week, the Christian Marshal could only browbeat lesser officials and they timidly tried to appease him with just a little death. After Feng had stormed for hours, Peiping police produced a half-frozen individual by the name of Lu Ju-hsin, saying they had caught him on a bicycle with 60 ounces of narcotics...
Every indication points to an administration sortie into Congress with the Canal in tow. And not far behind lurks the dismal shade of its twin blunder, the Passamaquoddy project. President Roosevelt, this time, undoubtedly has the power and prestige to browbeat a subservient Congress into a receptive mood. To do so, however, would be an appalling abuse of trust and confidence...
...Hearstling Martin Mooney, whose jailing for refusing to reveal to a grand jury the sources of his news stories about New York's numbers game, roughly coincided with Exclusive Story's premiere in Manhattan last week. The revelations range from the not particularly astounding information that racketeers browbeat small shopkeepers and sometimes shoot each other, to the more alarming but less plausible hypothesis that the Mono Castle (called in the picture the Mochado} was ignited by a shipload of liquid fire owned by a Manhattan crime cabal...
Where, we rise to enquire, and on what grounds should we feel disheartened? Our slap in the face comes from our general lack of desire to browbeat intellectually our dates. We're proud of our athletic prowess, but we don't wear our Phi Beta Kappa Keys to dazzle our girl friends...