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...biggest city of the world, and because it is inhabited by the strongest race in the world-the only one which has succeeded in organizing itself since the War; the only one which is not living on a past reputation; the only one, along with Italy, which does not demolish, but knows, on the contrary, how to construct." So says M. Morand, who has visited Manhattan four times, once for two months, and has seen enough to write a book about...
...Signore Mussolini was therefore almost ignored by the semi-official Paris Temps. But L'Avenir (organ of the Center) burst out: "The French Government should declare once and for all to the blackshirts and their German friends that we intend to revise nothing whatever! We will no more demolish the Versailles peace treaty to please Mussolini than to satisfy that crazy man Hitler. Let them understand this definitely and they can talk about something else...
...Peshawar area from Lahore, including a battalion of Seaforth highlanders? the old "Rosshire Buffs"?most feared of all British units by frontier tribesmen for having often and soundly whipped them in the past. The R. A. F. removed all white women from Peshawar, and then proceeded to demolish the villages of every tribe that had joined in the insurrection, allowing the occupants 24 hr. to take to the fields. To put the government of the frontier in the hands of the military, Viceroy Lord Irwin declared martial...
...before. Her characters are remarkably human for people in the pages of a detective story: they are frail, inconsistent, humorous, faulty. The detective is no Sherlock Holmes but a hard-working policeman who has to satisfy the district attorney, then out of sympathy and professional pride helps Miss Bell demolish the case he has made. But there is a murderer. If it were not for Author Rinehart, the villain might never have been discovered...
Last week before the same committee the Drys sought to demolish any impression its members might have retained that the Canadian system, is a success, by importing a Canadian witness, Ernest Charles Drury, onetime (1919-23) Premier of the Province of Ontario...