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...Paris bar. One is Gene Anders (Robert Young) who hoping to gratify his inclination for casual romance, suggests a trip to Switzerland. The other is his friend George Potter (Melvyn Douglas) who, also in love with Kay and aware that Gene already has a wife, joins the junket as chaperon. In Switzerland Kay and her companions have time to try everything from fancy skating, for which Claudette Colbert reveals unsuspected talent, to falling off a bob-sled at 60 m.p.h., before Gene's wife (Mona Barrie) appears at the ice bar of the Hotel St. Georg. This disrupts their...
...expect bursts of scholarly observations in high classic style from a Chinese Communist leader in 1937. Last week as spring burgeoned, the Chinese people prepared to celebrate anew their Ching Ming or "Day of Spring Wind" Festival. The Nanking Government decided to invite various Chinese bigwigs on a nationalistic junket to the tomb at Chungpu of the legendary "First Chinese Emperor, Huang Ti." It was not expected that the semi-independent Chinese Communist regime headed by rough & ready General Mao Tse-tung would wish to send a Red to kowtow before the dust of the late Emperor, dead these...
...General Mao did nothing so risky as to come on the junket in person, but jouncing along in a motor truck over spring-breaking roads came Red Finance Commissar Lin Po-chu. It was as if Earl Browder should send one of his Communist henchmen on Washington's Birthday to honor the capitalist Father of His Country. Bland and self-possessed, Red Lin produced a scroll which he said was from the brush of Red Mao-as likely a story as though it should be claimed that Comrade Browder had written a speech in Chaucerian English or Attic Greek...
...junket brought Mr. Davies and Daughter Emlen back to Moscow, where official newsorgans were pleased to learn from their reporters on the trip that the U. S. Ambassador had asked questions and taken notes on costs, wages, profits, distribution and labor efficiency as figured by Soviet managers; also their sources of labor, ages of workers, percentage of women, clothing, housing, rents, hospitalization, insurance and their definitions of "Stakhanovism"-the most disputed word in Russia (TIME, March...
Back from his junket, Banker Mount returned to his old institution in Oakland, which was then actually two banks, Central National and Central Savings. National failed to reopen after the 1933 banking holiday, though Savings did. As president of Savings and conservator of National, Banker Mount dug in. National's depositors were paid off 100 cents on the dollar and Savings became rock-solid Central Bank of Oakland...