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...their present posts. Also last week President Roosevelt appointed the following U. S. Ministers: Bert Fish of Florida to Egypt. Lawyer, judge, spry campaign cash collector, Minister Fish owns large citrus groves around De Land. James Marion Baker of South Carolina to Siam. Frederick Augustine Sterling of Texas to Bulgaria. Career Diplomat Sterling has served as Minister to the Irish Free State since 1927. At Dublin he is expected to be succeeded by William Walter McDowell, chairman of the Montana Democratic State Committee. Post Wheeler of Washington to Albania. A career diplomat, Mr. Wheeler's last post...
...Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania, Jugoslavia...
...Roosevelt Dam; a bystander's careless match that burned up his ship. Then he came down at sea, had to be towed for seven days into Fayal. Now came worse. Some say it was the House of Savoy, angered because he dared court Princess Giovanna (today Queen of Bulgaria). Some say it was Italo Balbo, jealous of de Pinedo's acclaim. Some say it was because de Pinedo "forgot" about a half-million-lire fund raised for him by Italo-Americans to buy a new plane. Italo's hero was suddenly, drastically demoted, attached ob- scurely...
...Juan of Our Days," he was in constant fun-paying arrears. "My good living with pretty gerls cost me planty money and brogth me in the claws of those wampyres of the humanity-the crooky jew usurers." Once he was elected (under an assumed nationality) to the throne of Bulgaria, but a barber recognized him and spoiled it all. He made and lost fortunes at the gaming table, hobnobbed with royalty, became kingpin of a polyglot community in Siberia, escaped to the U. S. ("the Contry of the Gold Devil"), where he pyramided another flimsy fortune, gradually subsided into...
...nervous as squirrels, perched the diplomats of the "Little Entente" (Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugoslavia) and Poland. They understood from France, their great ally, that she had gouged out of the Pact all possibility that it may lead to revision of their frontiers or rearmament of their neighbors (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria) but in diplomacy no move is more frequent than the double-cross. With pulses thumping, the little diplomats listened while Premier Mussolini did his best (amid deafening Senatorial Vivas) to make Il Patto a Quattro sound important. "The war chapter is closed!" he shouted and loudspeakers made all Rome reverberate...