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...weakness of the Western powers is most evident where China is concerned. That Japan will submit tamely to the closing or restriction of her markets in the British Empire is a Utopian dream. Retaliation will occur which may well take the form of an intensified effort to cultivate Chine still more assiduously than in the past as Japan's special province for her overflow of goods. The existence of Japan, like England, depends absolutely on the maintenance of here expert market; but whereas England has the Empire in which to trade advantageously, Japan's markets, with the exemption of Chine...
Throughout the land he sent police swarming through all Nazi headquarters and the houses of all known Nazi leaders. They found masses of Nazi leaflets, ma-chine-guns, rifles and small arms. Twice in a day they searched the house at Linz of Theodore Habicht, whom Hitler had blandly appointed Nazi "Inspector General for Austria." Fumed Herr Habicht: "Balkan methods!" and asked Hitler to make his house a German consulate. As such it would be extraterritorial, outside the jurisdiction of Austrian police. And Habicht made Dollfuss fume by charging that he had "begged" for an alliance with the Nazis...
...command the girls arose, marched out on the lawn. While teachers called the roll they watched flames writhe and shoot through "Four Corners." It soon burned to the ground and with it the belongings of 40 of the younger Walker girls-green wool and cotton uniforms, white crepe de chine evening dresses, riding habits. They had no place to sleep; nor did 80 other girls. For two days prior "Beaverbrook," a stately brick building that contained classrooms, offices, dining room, sleeping quarters, had been gutted by a brisk, suspiciously sudden fire. Most of Miss Walker's girls...
Silk men say that a silk fad sweeps the world about every ten years. Creeping out of the post-War slump, in 1922 the silk industry was whipped to prosperity by a huge and sudden demand for crepe de Chine. It replaced taffeta, which had clung on tenaciously from the billowy era at the turn of the century, as the standard dress silk. When the good news came last month, silk mills had little rough crepe in stock. So great and so urgent was the demand that silk men last week were vainly trying to buy from each other...
...word soon went around the silk industry's lunch tables that something had been found. It was not exactly something new; it was merely old enough to seem new. It was Rough Crepe, which takes more silk fibre per yard than any other silk dress stuff. Crepe de Chine has not been "in" for years, rough crepes have never been popular. Few wardrobes would contain old crepe de Chine dresses, let alone rough crepes, that could be made over. Silk men know that there are 10,000,000 U. S. women who have never had a silk dress. Perhaps...