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Flappers & Socialists. The newspaper of world's largest circulation, London's Daily Mail, and other organs of the Rothermere Press flatly predicted, last week, that Britain's newly enfranchised ''flappers" (women from 21 to 30) will prevent the return of the Conservatives with their present independent majority. Pontificating in the Daily Mail, Lord Rothermere declared: "The only sure way of keeping out the Socialists (Laborites) is in the union of the two anti-Socialist parties under David Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin, and this combination of Liberals and Conservatives would have our heartiest support...
...Century British Sea Chanty Rightly or wrongly the Allied Powers dealt beaten Germany a blow beneath the belt in 1919, when they seized virtually the whole German merchant marine of 3,500,000 tons-third largest in the world. From President Paul von Hindenburg down, every German feels today that among the greatest triumphs of Peace must be ranked the Fatherland's astounding feat of building 3,000,000 tons of shipping in the decade since the War. The summer of 1929 was to have seen German mercantile prestige finally restored with added lustre by the completion...
...been placed in a higher rating than any other ship afloat by the North Atlantic Conference of ship owners. Accordingly she will command a slightly higher minimum First Class rate than the $300 "crowded season minimum rate" of the Majestic, hitherto with the Leviathan highest in price and largest. So far as accommodations are concerned no radical
...luxury not found in the First Class of many small and old eight-day boats. Today the fastest ship in the world is still the Mauretania but with the advent of the Bremen a new speed queen should reign on the Atlantic, at least until 1930. The largest German motor ship, M. S. St. Louis of the Hamburg-American Line, sailed from Hamburg on her maiden voyage to Manhattan, last week, tips the nautical scales at 16,750 tons...
...great enigma continued to be Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (TIME, July 2). He recently resigned as Nationalist War Minister, but last week some of his well-drilled divisions advanced south against the rebels under the Nationalist banner, while the Marshal with his main army moved north into Shantung; seemingly with intent to vanquish the Marshal Chang Tsung-chang who had just captured Chefoo?where the hair nets come from...