Word: indo-china
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...Every once in a while Harry Acton, shipnews reporter for the New York American, fills his column with sundry information under the title DID YOU KNOW? Last week he asked if his readers knew: "That the pure-blooded dogs brought out by the French colonials to French Indo-China are often garbed in stout canvas pants to assure their offspring against mixture with the local mongrel breed...
...flyer, daughter of Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson (Chicago Tribune), divorced last October from James Simpson Jr. who is the son of James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co.; and Peter Grimm,? Shanghai business man whom she met on shipboard while enroute to Tokyo from a hunting expedition in French Indo-China; in Tokyo, Japan. "It is absurd!" said Miss Patterson. "I never was alone with Grimm except for half an hour...
Vulture. Debonair Prince George Valentine Bibesco of Rumania, president of Federation Aeronautique Internationale, took off from Paris for Saigon, Indo-China last fortnight with two pilots and a mechanic. Their plane, the Count da la Vaulx* was a Ford tri-motor equipped with kitchen and bed, loaned them by King Carol. Their purpose: ostensibly to hunt big game; actually to compile a first-hand report on the redtape of international flying for presentation at the next meeting of the Federation. As the plane approached Allahabad, India last week a vulture flew into one of the propellers. About two hours later...
...prominent member of the Hoover cabinet recently asked a representative of Siam, "How far is it from the coast?" But Siam is not in fact an island, quite the reverse. Shaped like a plump spider, Siam squats between French Indo-China and British Burma on the mainland of Asia, faces the Gulf of Siam, darts a narrow tongue of Siamese territory 600 miles down the Malay Peninsula. Population: 11,506,200. Area: more than four times that of the State of New York...
...doubles tennis score of two Davises, pere et fils, in defeating MM Claviez and Peysson, French Indo-China's champions, was 5-7, 6-1, 6-0. After this triumph all three Davises motored out to Pnom Penh, capital of Cambodia (French), seat of that good-natured puppet, King Sisowath Monivong. Upon Governor General Davis, His Majesty bestowed the Grand Cordon of the Royal Order. Stiff little women in pearl-encrusted cloth-of-gold performed a royal ballet. Then the Davis party motored on to Siam, lamenting perhaps that U. S. Colonial policy does not permit the existence of genial...