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...family name was Lawrence; to Arab warriors he was Aurans, Emir Dinamit, ''the World's Imp"; newspaper Warwicks dubbed him "the uncrowned King of Arabia"; some of his immediate superiors in the British Army called him every epithet in the calendar; now he answers only to his legally changed name of "Shaw." An archeologist of the first rank, he is now a mechanic and "the associate of menials"; once a colonel, he is now, by choice, a private; with a reputation that could still be cashed in for much fine gold, he is content with his army pittance of 60?...
Breaths were bated in the South last week. In Atlanta, the Imps of Hell had dug a Pit. Mayor James Lee Key was an Imp. In Nashville, Dr. Edwin Frederick Vogelpohl, member of the church council of the First Lutheran Church, was not only an Imp but the first president of the Imps of Hell...
Other governments are merely political monopolies. The Soviet State is monopoly incarnate: political, economic, social. If some imp should pop the idea of trying to depress world automobile prices into President Herbert Hoover's head he could not order Fords and Chevrolets sold at $100 apiece. But Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin can do things remarkably like that. To understand this, to gauge the potential power of Red statesmen to work mischief in world markets, was more vital last week than to be scared by lurid rumors of Red grain dumping in Liverpool and Amsterdam, Red speculating for the decline...
Hudson's Bay Imp. Mixture 1.95 Prince Albert...
...President for the first time since taking office visited the Washington Navy Yard. He was saluted with 21 guns, boarded the presidential barge, was ferried out into the Potomac near Haines Point, received another salute, boarded the revenue cutter Apache. Leaning over the rail he watched intently while Imp II, driven by Financier Richard Farnsworth Hoyt of Manhattan, won the President's cup for motorboats. The Pres- ident then accepted another salute, was ferried ashore and motored?reversing a decision of the week prior?the 100-odd miles away from Washington's heat and humidity to his Rapidan camp...