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Egypt festered ominously last week. With mobs continuing to scream "Down with England!" the combined British Navy and Air Force, concentrated in & off Alexandria's matchless harbor, staged a "midnight attack" with British battle planes thundering overhead...
...because a minor monarch got it into his kinky head that it would be good defensive strategy to rush the concession to signature at a critical juncture in his country's history and then blab about it to the world. Said a rueful Standard Oilman in Manhattan, in a matchless piece of understatement: "The publicity was handled badly...
...subject of a whole cinema cycle (G Men, Let 'Em Have It, Men Without Names, Public Hero No. 1), a radio program by Phillips ("Seth Parker") Lord, countless newspaper feature stories and serials more notable for their action than for their accuracy. The Bureau disclaims all responsibility for this matchless quantity of spectacular press-agentry. It recognizes, along with the Army and Navy, that public attention and public favor make it easier to get money out of Congress. But the public's enthusiasm for G-Men has been largely responsible for alienating the co-operation of local police, without which...
...Vermont stonecutter, Tabor went West in 1855, opened a general store, made $1,300,000 out of a $64 grubstake to two German prospectors who struck silver. He bought the Matchless silver mine in Leadville, Colo, for $117,000, made $10,000,000 out of it. Coarse and lusty, he spent his money with equal pleasure on a million-dollar opera house in Denver, a $1,000 silk & lace nightshirt with gold buttons. Dazzled by his wealth was the belle of the mining camps. "Baby Doe," daughter of an Oshkosh, Wis. tailor. When the great Tabor began eyeing her blonde...
...usual the will and pleasure of the Supreme Pontiff were made known by the Papal paper, Osservatore Romano, with matchless sonority and unction: "The Holy Father has deigned to place his venerated signature to a law whereby the Governor of the State for a period of six months beginning Jan. 1, 1935 is given legislative power with reference to the constitution, the suppression and reorganization of the offices of civil administration...