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...because Dr. Kung has begun to make good on a number of defaulted foreign loans, promises to take care of them all. Hitler, Göring and Dr. Schacht therefore licked their chops when he arrived in Berlin. They gave him an honorary degree, got an unnamed industrialist to cough up 100,000 Reichsmarks for Chinese students to visit Germany, finally hinted that Germany would love to export machinery and other goods to China if Dr. Kung would float another international loan to pay for them. But wily Dr. Kung shattered their hopes by saying that China has learned...
...account since 1926 and whose starry stimulus has always been the hope of devising an Old Gold promotion as effective as that of Camels, Lucky Strikes or Chesterfields on less than half the money spent to advertise each of those brands. Lennen & Mitchell's original slogan, "Not a cough in a carload," put Old Golds fourth among big-selling cigarets, but neither that nor "Double your money back" offers in 1935 and 1936 promised to boost Old Gold sales anywhere near the Big Three. Lennen & Mitchell, who are also agents for the Scripps-Howard newspapers, had kept an attentive...
Lenin's wife, Krupskaya, was an "ex-tremely plain woman, really ugly," who prompted Max Eastman to say: "Lenin would probably get well if he had a pretty girl!" In Paris, Poet McKay joined the expatriate throngs, caught a hacking cough by posing in the nude, was given a check to keep him three months in southern France by John Reed's widow, Louise Bryant. He gave up a job in Rex Ingram's Nice movie studio after chasing a co-worker with a knife, and wrote his sensational novel Home To Harlem. In Morocco, McKay...
Life, however, was not always a bowl of cherries to these gourmands of other days if we can judge by certain sections of the cook books now in display. The 16th century Fannie Farmer did not overlook a few "infallible cures for corns, callous heels, croup, whooping cough" and minor spasms of indigestion which were the post requisites of these feasts...
...fever. In addition to those diseases, in which the Government has special interest, New York City will prevent radio pratique if a ship harbors chicken pox, diphtheria, dysentery (amebic or bacillary), epidemic encephalitis, German measles, measles, meningococcus meningitis, mumps, paratyphoid fever, infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, or whooping cough. Only ships regularly in the following services may use radio pratique: between New York and European ports, between East and West coasts of the U. S. by way of the Panama Canal, between New York and the Canal, between New York and Bermuda or ports in the West Indies...