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...Hitherto only Austria had extended formal recognition. Hungary has given de facto recognition by extending to the Italian Empire the benefit of her trade treaties with the Italian Kingdom. Turkey has withdrawn her Legation from Addis Ababa, placing its affairs in the hands of the Italian Viceroy...
...Antoine de Paris, popped into Lloyds Bank for money and on visiting her new house to inspect the decoration, indulged in some hocus-pocus with the hall lights, said to have been devised by Bodyguardsman David Storier. When the hall light gave two short winks and one long, that meant that Chauffeur Ladbrooke was to start up the royal Buick and with engine buzzing open the door for Mrs. Simpson to dash from house...
...Surat Khan in a leopard hunt the day before the Khan learns that the British Government has discontinued his fat subsidy. Months later, Geoffrey reaps the reward of his good turn. When the Khan's tribesmen have surrounded the military outpost at Chukoti, Geoffrey and the girl (Olivia de Havilland) who loves his brother are the only members of the garrison who survive cold-blooded massacre. To avenge the slaughter at Chukoti becomes the sole purpose of Vickers' 27th Lancers. Its chance comes at the siege of Sebastopol where Surat Khan, now allied with Russia, is holding...
Other Fellowships for foreign study are the Fiske Scholarship for Cambridge University, the application for which is due April 1: the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Fellowship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, applications due March 31; the Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellowship, candidates for which are nominated by the various departments; and the Frederick Sheldon Prize Fellowships, for four men, for which nominations are also made by the various departments...
...Democrats carried the urban colleges pretty well. Barnard, Columbia, Manhattan, and New York University all gave Roosevelt a 5 to 2 lead. De Paul in Chicago gave Roosevelt 1084 to Landon's 227. The University of Chicago gave Roosevelt a 2 to 1 preference, and also had the largest minor party vote, giving Thomas of the Socialists 143, and Browder of the Communists...