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...Wood could beat England's World Champion Frederick J. Perry or if Shields could beat England's No. 2 dapper little Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, the U. S. had a fine chance to win the Davis Cup for the first time in eight years. In the other three matches, it was agreed that George Lott and Lester Stoefen could scarcely fail to demolish any doubles team England could put on the court; that Wood would probably beat Austin; and that Perry would certainly beat Shields. The draw scheduled both crucial singles matches for the first...
...been allowed to." This strengthened public conviction that $30,000,000 Swindler Alexandre Stavisky was no suicide but was shot by the Sûrete because highly placed politicians thought he knew too much. For months the Rightist Paris Press has been hammering insinuations of guilt at dapper Deputy Camille Chautemps who was Premier when the Stavisky scandal broke. M. Chautemps is now leader in the Chamber of the biggest Left bloc, the Radical Socialists whose Party President is Edouard Herriot, perpetual Mayor of Lyons, onetime Premier and today, like M. Tardieu, a Minister of State. One morning last week...
...purposeful deliveries. If Adolf Hitler came home with a swelled head and hot new ideas for Dictatorship from his visit to Benito Mussolini (TIME, June 25). certainly last week he was dextrously chilled and shrunk-and by the very Hindenburg henchman who first presented him to the President, dapper, nonchalant Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen...
...appointment came through to the Capitol. Although Senator Smith had committed himself too far to back down, the Senate by the over whelming majority of 53 to 24 confirmed Dr. Tugwell. Although only six Democrats voted against confirmation, there was many another who at heart distrusted the dapper young professor's theories and would have cast a contrary vote if it would not have been construed as a vote of no-confidence in Dr. Tugwell's patron, Franklin D. Roosevelt. But Senatorial motives mattered little to Rexford Guy Tugwell. In his office after the confirmation, he beamingly received...
...firm of racetrack book makers in the world is Douglas Stuart Ltd., which employs 400 clerks in its entirely legal offices at Stuart House, Shaftesbury Avenue, London. Douglas Stuart, whose motto is "Duggie Never Owes" is not a person but a syndicate. Busiest member of the syndicate is breezy, dapper, dark-haired Sidney Freeman, who once worked with Novelist Edgar Wallace on a South African newspaper, and who would "rather trust an English bricklayer than a foreign nobleman," in the matter of bets. For the last three years. Bookmaker Freeman has been coming...