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...polling places. Boastfully proud of his army and contemptuous of Cuban politicians, Batista called this election "the fairest and most honorable in the republic's history." Cuba's much-bossed President, Federico Laredo Bru, who has long been expected to announce his resignation after this election, kept mum last week about himself, but made a possibly ironic speech of "thanks" to citizens of Santiago for their "demonstrative" greeting to his "representative," Batista, on the occasion of a grand fiesta celebrating the 43rd anniversary of the beginning of Cuba's struggle for independence...
...ground floor & basement. From storing sets it descended to clumping & burning them-$30 a truckload for the ride, $4 for the bonfire. Presently Cain's took to burning unclaimed junk at its own expense. Finally, on the last day of 1937, it folded secretly. Patsy Cain kept mum about it for six weeks, hoping for a saving miracle. Said he last week: ''I got out without being exactly broke, but if I had waited much longer...
Without exception every Tokyo paper reported that the Japanese Government would reject the Brussels Conference's proposals, Nichi Nichi adding that the Conference had better advise China to approach Japan directly and sue for peace. Adolf Hitler, having kept completely mum and kept Germany out of the Conference, was conceded by European observers to be building up a position of technical aloofness to which Japanese and Chinese might ultimately turn, should they decide that One Man can mediate better than a Conference...
...villainous Michailow. There Vera, who wears a blonde wig and works as an entertainer, spies them. With her maternal instincts at boiling point, she seizes a handy revolver, riddles Michailow with steely questions. At the trial, determined not to let Lisa know who she is, she keeps nobly mum. In view of the mess Vera has landed herself in, the ending is very, very happy...
...said. According to Japanese sources. General Sung made abject apologies for the recent fighting in North China, agreed to punish Chinese officers whose troops had fought, and confirmed that he always tries to stamp out "anti-Japanism." But all this from Sung was "verbal" and Chinese sources kept absolutely mum about what he had or had not promised Kazuki...