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...cranberry grower on the Cape runs a tiny railroad on his farm. It is the last two gauger in the country. He picked up the antique's parts a few years ago from a Maine junk dealer, put them in working order and now uses the line to haul cran-berries. The local railroad-bugs intend to visit him sometime this spring and spend an afternoon examining his models and riding his ancient train...
...surprisingly, he surrenders the all-important Foreign Ministry, gossips' candidates for his successor are Permanent Foreign Under Secretary Sir Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with muggin') and Robert Arthur James Cecil, Viscount Cran-borne, Dominions Secretary and Leader of the House of Lords. Stooped, willowy, witty Lord Cranborne and Eden were known as the "Foreign Office Twins" when they worked together in the governments of Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. Their views were so close together that when Eden quit as Foreign Secretary in 1938 in protest against appeasement, Lord Cranborne, his Under Secretary, followed with outspoken approval. Nothing since...
Buenos Aires, April 16--Paraguay penetrated farther into the territory of Bolivia proper today, capturing the important town of Charagua, proclaiming her intention of promoting separation of the province of Santa Cruz from Bolivia, and in general turning the war over the Cran Chaco towards an invasion...
During the past few weeks a heated controversy has been going on in the "Letters to the Editor" column of the New York Times, concerning the truthful teaching of History--particularly that of the American Revolution. Charles Cran Miller, of fame unknown to "Who's Who", began the skirmish by attacking elementary text-books on the ground that they destroy patriotism. These books present the American position as partly right and partly wrong. According to Mr. Miller, we ought to regard the American leaders as saints and the English ministry and king as demons. The next week the author...
...Humbert, Assistant to Mr. Cran at University 5, has resigned his position. Mr. H. C. Boynton of Plymouth will take his place...