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Minister of Education Stefan Raditch smacked down an accusation at Belgrade last week which shattered the rather mythical unity of Premier Nikola Pashitch's coalition Cabinet. M. Raditch charged without mincing that Rade Pashitch, the Premier's son, is a grafter with parental connivance; that he has been mulcting the Treasury since the War by dealing in dishonest contracts...
...press recently broadcasted from Liege, Belgium, the announcement that Surgeon Serge Voronoff, famed French gland-grafter, had stated that it was possible to increase the wool crop of sheep by gland-transplanting. He added that he hoped, by repeating the process on several generations of sheep, to create a special breed unusually wool-productive. He said that he was experimenting on a flock of 3,000 sheep in Algeria...
...Editor Filippo Filippelli of the Corriere Italiano, Fascist organ was arrested shortly after he escaped from Rome. It was known that Finzi was the moving spirit of the Corriere Italiano. There followed the arrest of 17 more Fascisti. The Opposition fulminated against the Government, declared that Finzi was a grafter...
...DARK PLACES-John Russell- Knopf ($2.50). Twelve tales of savage environments and more or less savage people by the author of Where the Pavement Ends. A tourist searches for "the color of the East" and finds it strangely crim-son-a tropical grafter fights to the death so no one may rob his superiors but himself-criminals, escaping on a former slave ship fall into the hands of the deadly justice of the vampire bats-and so on. The yarns are varied, colorful, exciting, skilfully told, with a knowledge of strange lands and stranger characters that is obviously firsthand. Neither...
...Gentle Grafter," O. Henry...