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...wanted a new one from Irak's King Feisal. At last Irak Petroleum Co. was formed and the shares were equally divided, 23% each, among the winners: The Netherlands' Royal Dutch-Shell; Anglo-Persian, in which the British Government has a 50% interest; France's Compagnie Française des Pétroles, in which the French Government has big holdings; and the U. S.'s Near East Development Corp., owned by New York's and New Jersey's Standard Companies and Gulf Refining Co. A final non-voting 5% went to a mysterious...
Benito Mussolini knew that there was more to the conversations than that. So did the French Government. Minister of Marine François Pietri sent his silk hat out to be steamed before hurrying down to Marseilles to meet King Alexander. In the Hotel Crillon in Paris chambermaids scoured the royal suite till it gleamed, and at a dozen French parade grounds troops tramped up & down before exasperated sergeants getting ready for a great state review. So great was the stake in the game he was about to play that at the last minute, Foreign Minister Barthou himself decided...
...Lane for the parallel job on the left. Lane has improved a great deal in the last few days and is now rated as at least second string. For guards, Franks Littlefield will be Captain Herman Gund- lach's understudy, with Bob Brookings a grasshopper's length ahead of Fran Schumann for the opposite side of the line. Gundy, incidentally, will be ready for contact work today or tomorrow...
...pound giants that stopped the Hawks' running attack and wrecked all attempts at passes; Brown, too has a heavy line that were down an unusually good. B. U. eleven; Army's frontier is at sector this year. Captain Gundlach is the only member of long experience, though Fran Schumann saw some action in 1933 and would have been in a good deal more if he hadn't been put on the injured list early in the season. Apparently Casey figures that Schu is a bit off his feed just at present, for large Fran is not the ranking guard...
...Genoa to make what amounted to a fiery campaign speech. Down from Paris to hear him had gone hundreds of Camelots du Roi ("King's Henchmen"), the pick of French aristocracy. No sluggards, they do such chores in Paris as distributing the Royalist news paper, L' Action Française, drill secretly for service under "King Jean...