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...final twist to the British lion's tail, Il Duce went down to Ostia, took the controls of his trimotored seaplane and flew off over the Tyrrhenian Sea for his first visit in twelve years to Sardinia, found two miles of conscripts lined up ready to embark...
...Yale baseball team was preparing to embark for a goodwill sporting tour of Japan as the guests of Tokyo's Six-University Baseball League...
...textile industry's "scare," can be amply explained by the fear of authorities that similar emotional appeals to racial animosity may be resorted to by other pressure groups, thus disguising our real national interest as represented in trade with Japan, and precipitating a trade war. Should this nation embark on such a trade war with Japan, officials fear that our foreign trade might be realt a blow far more severe than that which the textile interests claim is threatening them...
...mood approaches hilarity. With his belligerent assistant Spudsy (Allen Jenkins) and his attractive secretary (Claire Dodd), he begins cracking jokes and upsetting the ethics of the legal profession. By the time his gaiety has started to subside, the murderer has been discovered, Perry Mason is about to embark for China...
Last week it was as Gyp's president that Sewell Lee Avery presided over a stockholders' meeting. Forthright as ever, he briskly challenged a few of the country's most cherished economic notions. It was shortsighted, said he, to think that the U. S. must embark upon a vast building program to restore prosperity. There was far too much building in the last period of prosperity. Home and industrial construction would pick up when & if business activity created a genuine demand for new quarters. What was more, any building revival was unlikely until both material prices...