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Amid the glens and greensward and deep foliage of rustic North Wales last week, tired Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin rested with his good wife Lucy. In Whitehall his secretaries did their best to keep down the contents of the red morocco dispatch box which had to be sent to the P.M. each day. The strategy of His Majesty's Government for the time being was comfortably described as "masterly inaction" and yet they were in fact most active...
...point of closing the immigration gates of Palestine with a new policy of "No More Jews," temporarily at least. No sooner was this "leak" well out in London than Jewish leaders in the Empire capital brought their influence to bear. The result was last week's dispatch of enough troops to squelch the Arabs and in due time make Palestine a real "Jewish Homeland...
...Aboard the Presidential Pullmans were placed scores of copies of the Fargo (N. Dak.) Forum, whose front page displayed a strange yarn. Because a corps of the nation's nimblest newshawks were also on the train, Republican editors throughout the land were soon rubbing their hands over a dispatch which, on quick reading, seemed to convict the New Deal's cherished Resettlement Administration of photographic fakery and bad faith...
...each, racked their brains for a dozen weeks over the Globe-Democrat's "Famous Names." First trouble came when a Roman Catholic priest denounced the saucy drawings of Artist Arno. Soon the rival Star-Times, which once had an option on the contest itself, and Post-Dispatch began to hint that the contest was unfair. Finally two St. Louisans tied for first prize, won $6,000 each. Then Missouri's Attorney General cracked down, brought suit against the fat, frightened Globe-Democrat on the ground that "Famous Names" was no contest of skill but simply a public gambling...
Eastern editors were mildly startled last week when they received a dispatch from Ogden, Utah, announcing the election of Marriner Stoddard Eccles as president of Amalgamated Sugar Co. Equally surprised were they to discover that all along he had been Amalgamated's vice president and treasurer. Remembering that the Secretary of the Treasury is not allowed to have a financial interest in trade, commerce or ships, reporters scurried to Senator Carter Glass to ask whether it was all right for the Chairman of the Reserve System actually to head an industrial corporation. The crusty Virginian, who disparaged Mr. Eccles...