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...Colbert, who cuddles up to the role of Cigarette, the Legion mascot who finally gallops across the desert to save the battalion from extermination by the Arabs and die dreamily in the arms of the man she loves. Colman plays the part of the Briton-with-a-past who com mits patrician misconduct with a willowy Lady Venetia (Rosalind Russell) in a ruined monastery in the desert while the sound track wallows in the Kashmiri Song...
...Tunnel. As a State Senator, Mr. Toll served in the negotiations for the Colorado River Compact which was to divide water power and water rights from Boulder Dam among seven Western states. He soon learned that states seldom agree, because they have no machinery for negotiation. The Colorado River Com pact was ten years in the making. The negotiators were unofficial representatives; their tentative agreements were often repudiated by their governors or their legislatures; when negotiations were begun again a new set of unofficial representatives would appear and all discussion had to start again from the beginning...
Statesman Paredes answered his San Franciscan countrymen with restraint : He believed the judge had not meant to call all Filipinos savages-"but there are savages everywhere." Finally he urged his com patriots to "avoid occasions for rebuke" and sent a copy of his reply to Judge Lazarus accompanied by a note saying, "I cannot believe that you had in any way in tended to refer to my people as a whole...
...conclusion of a summer's romantic misbehavior on the Bay of Naples, Belinda Warren (Miss Laye) has returned to the dank residence of her frosty aunt. The inescapable laws of biology soon com plicate Belinda's problem. She is to have a baby. Unhappily, the baby's illegitimate father is already married to a childless invalid. The baby's illegitimate grandfather rationally proposes that the little newcomer be smuggled into his son's home, passed off as his son's legal heir...
...Treasury. Meanwhile the Chicago butchers charged that the packers had passed along their tax in the form of higher meat prices. The butchers claimed that as they had, in effect, paid the taxes, it was to them that the refund should go. Many processors sold processed com modities on a price-plus-tax basis which was not itemized. It would be hard to prove how much of the processing tax had been passed on. To keep the refund melon all to themselves, processors relied upon a legal precedent growing out of Wartime excise taxes. In 1918 Congress passed...