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Swooping down, the seaplane landed just at the mouth of Rome's river, muddy Father Tiber. A motorcar whisked Sir John to the British Embassy. There he found the strongest foe in Rome to any change in the League, patient, sandy-mustached Sir Eric Drummond, now British Ambassador but for 14 years Secretary General of the League. Talks between II Duce and Sir John quickly crystallized around the issue of Disarmament. In Berlin the French Ambassador, bristling M. André François-Poncet who has personal connections with the French munitions firm of Schneider & Cie., had just delivered...
...apparatus, $3,000,000 in glass & glassware. That some of these products were not mentioned in the published summaries was taken to mean, not that they were omitted from the agreement, but that Canada wanted to avoid lobbying in Parliament and an inrush of goods for sale. U. S. motorcar manufacturers were delighted to learn that no agreement was reached increasing the "Empire content" of assembled products (in Canada, 50%; in Britain...
Suddenly a motorcar drew up with screeching brakes. Out leaped two naval lieutenants, an army sergeant and two corporals of Gendarmerie, all pointing pistols which made the guards run. Bursting into the Premier's lobby, the five attackers found it guarded by Policeman Yasomatsu Hirayama. They shot him, forced their way on into the helpless Old Fox's lair. Screamed his daughter-in-law: "Please let us escape...
...Designer Stout feels that not from the big, rich companies, but from little fellows, handy with tools, tinkering in their own shops, will come the radical innovations that are imperative. Or. he adds, with a pat on the back of his employer: "It looks as though a certain motorcar man with youth and most certain brains might know so little about what the experts say, that he might show...
Late one night last November young Dr. Cornelius Packard ("Dusty") Rhoads of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re-search returned to his quarters at San Juan, Porto Rico, and found that someone had stolen a cushion and some accessories from the motorcar he used. After six wearing months of treating balky Puertorriquenos for pernicious anemia (his research Arbeit), after again that evening giving his blood (six quarts in all) to anemic natives, Dr. Rhoads lost his temper. To work off his anger he wrote a personal letter which included the above quotation. That made him feel better. So he threw...