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...news from "Europe's Largest Motor Car Factory," the $119,000,000 "Molotov Works" recently built near old Nizhnii Novgorod by the Austin Company of Cleveland, Ohio, caused Dictator Stalin to rush out to this luckless plant last week the Commissar for Heavy Industry himself, Comrade Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, one of Stalin's best and closest friends...
Japanese shot & shell dropping into Shanghai have done more during the last month than spread death & destruction among luckless Chinese. They have also dropped into the lawyer-like mind of Secretary of State Stimson a mass of new and anxious thoughts on the peace of the Pacific. Last week Statesman Stimson was ready to take out these thoughts and put them down on paper. There was a sharp buzz of diplomatic excitement when Washington heard he was writing "something." Some correspondents predicted it would be a "stiff note" to Japan, protesting her aggression in China. Others forecast an "important statement...
...Central Europe's finances was also painted, but the President pledged all his guests to secrecy as to the breakfast conference. That explained why Speaker Garner could only laud the meal as he hopped into a new White House automobile to be driven to the Capitol. To luckless newsmen about the portico, he waved goodbye. "I don't get to see you fellows often. You're up here with all these rich...
There is perhaps not recorded a more mildly poignant life pattern than that of Charles Lamb, who, himself not precisely a tower of strength, had yet to bear the burden of his own peccadillos with the tragic fact of his adored sister. While unfolding the subdued drama of this luckless pair the authoress availed herself of the abundant material for the creation of a literary atmosphere, and for the most part achieved a satisfying degree of success, leaving only to be desired a more penetrating (although not lengthier) portrayal of S. T. Coleridge, or at least an intimation...
...willing. Inevitably, his flight must have significance. The Philippine Tourist Association cabled: "Commercial aviation in the Philippines desperately needs stimulation. Come help us." Chinese aviation interests saw a "great step" toward establishment of trans-Pacific commercial air routes. Japanese newspapers banzaied with joy. The Tokyo Hochi Shimbun, backer of luckless Seiji, promised to send him soon with a new plane on a return visit...