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...statesman sent up a trial balloon to test Christian public opinion by letting it be known in Jerusalem that he thought the British were on the point of closing the immigration gates of Palestine with a new policy of "No More Jews," temporarily at least. No sooner was this "leak" well out in London than Jewish leaders in the Empire capital brought their influence to bear. The result was last week's dispatch of enough troops to squelch the Arabs and in due time make Palestine a real "Jewish Homeland...
...into the State of Virginia's side a few yards aft of the merrymakers. No one was seriously hurt. Taken off four and a half hours later by a ferryboat, Governor Nice telegraphed his wife: "Don't wait up for me. Be home late. Boat sprang a leak...
...Insurance now being taken out against King Edward's marriage prior to his Coronation next spring boomed so heavily last week that Lloyd's quotation shortened from odds of 11-to-1 to 5-to-1. This sort of thing, in view of the recent Budget leak insurance scandal (TIME, May 4 et seq.), caused British eyebrows to up sharply with queries on whether there has been a marriage leak. Stoutly Lloyd's maintained that they thought there was no speculative position last week but only a rush to cover "legitimate trade risks...
Cruising along at 6,000 ft., Pilots Eugene Schacher and Ed Hefley suddenly smelled a gasoline leak, cut the motor. Without warning a backfire enveloped the engine in flames. Pilot Hefley put the ship into a sharp dive. At 275 m.p.h. it hurtled downward, pancaked on the nearest field, slithered to a stop. Out from their blazing little hole Jesse Jones and three fellow-passengers yanked the pilots, arms and faces seared and sooty. Few minutes later the plane was smoking ashes...
...course, soared in price. It also happened that blocks of such bonds were largely bought just before the rise by British speculators, whose keen sense of values soon enabled them to make a greater killing in Newfoundlands in 1933 than in this year's rather pip-squeak Budget leak...