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...Tokyo flashed a stiff diplomatic note replying to that in which Britain last July 15 announced that she has "invoked the escalator clause" of the London Naval Treaty. In plain words this meant that because Adolf Hitler has torn up the Treaty of Versailles and is building Germany a forbidden navy, Stanley Baldwin has torn up the limitations on British naval building in the London Treaty. Unlike Herr Hitler, Mr. Baldwin has a perfect right to do this, as have President Roosevelt and Emperor Hirohito, for the Treaty provides that any signatory may take the imaginary "escalator" up to greater...
Joan is a jobless showgirl whose agent Nicky (Gregory Ratoff) gets national publicity for her when Farraday, a famed film actor with Shakespearean inclinations, fancies her as his ideal Juliet. Vigorously vacationing, but forbidden alcohol, Farraday is kept supplied by Nicky with bay rum ("South American brandy"), which he absorbs out of a hot-water bottle, through a straw. Stimulated, Romeo is madly in love with Juliet. Sober, he has no use for her. Kidnapped by his manager to keep him out of trouble, Romeo is chased across the U. S. by Juliet and Nicky, finally corralled for a radio...
...herd of antelope 27 miles in 45 minutes in his automobile. Nearly an eighth of the 40,000 pronghorn antelopes in the U. S. roam over Rancher Belden's 200.000 acres in the Meeteetsee Valley. Few years ago they were so near extinction that hunting them was _ forbidden. As a result they have multiplied immensely, eaten more than their share of Rancher Belden's grass. Lately he got permission to sell a few. Last week Rancher Belden's unique sales methods made headlines in two continents...
...even worse, had to stand for a whole hour in which nothing could be heard but the frantic cheers of Austrians for the ruler of Germany. Vienna police, either anxious for their own skins or under secret orders from absent Chancellor Schuschnigg, not only permitted Nazis to roar their forbidden Horst Wessel song but let them slug and beat up Socialists, Communists and Jews. Four plug-uglies wearing Nazi white socks dumped a blood-bespattered youth in front of some policemen, mockingly declared : "Here's a Red for you who's been shouting against Hitler...
...cuff and bulb. An overlarge dial was blatantly labeled "Blood Pressure Indicator for SYSTOLIC PRESSURE." For 10? passers-by were invited to "READ YOUR OWN BLOOD PRESSURE."* To protect himself from the serious charge of practicing medicine without a license, Concessionaire Males set up big signs reading: "Attendant is forbidden to diagnose, prescribe or treat under any circumstances. The only purpose of this (non-stethoscope) machine is to let you read your own blood pressure, and nothing else. For a true medical interpretation you are referred to your Family Doctor. . . ." A State medical inspector, egged on by irate doctors, ordered...