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...More "Oi!" The Cabinet shakeup, indicating that at least Mr. Chamberlain intends to energize the rearmament drive, is expected to rally public support for the Government's vast Voluntary National Service registration scheme, inaugurated last week by the Prime Minister with a radio chat from his high armchair at No. 10 Downing Street...
...world's figure-skating championships were held in the U. S. for the first time. From Norway to defend her itle came dimpled 17-year-old Champion Sonja Henie, who gave an exhibition oi kating in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden the likes of which New Yorkers had never seen. In 1932 she came again-for the Winter Olympic Games-and regained for a series of charity ice carnival n a dozen U. S. cities. Every pig-ta led girl who saw her swirling in a fairy-like froth of marabou dreamed that some day she might skate...
...person had often moved to a new home or was not in. One old man came to the door and eyed the visitor with a sea going against. Asked it he were Josephus Tootle he replied "Oi'm Curley man!" He had not corked up the door sufficiently with his legs, unfortunately, and before this enlightening interview had ended, 26 assorted children and cats had flowed through the openings and down the steps. They dissolved in to the atmosphere as quickly as they had come and the patriarch speak majestically "Dose my children. Dey Curley men, too," and shut...
Aside from reviewing over-the-counter market regulation, only major issue oi last week's gathering was the proposed elimination of tax-exempt securities. After hearing Chief Counsel John Philip Wenchel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue expound the New Deal doctrine that tax exemption should be ended in order to pump stagnant savings into use, then hearing Banker David Wood rebut with the standard argument that taxing tax-exempts would violate State rights, the assembled investment bankers resolved in favor of eliminating tax exemption on future issues. But this was no New Deal yessing, for banishing...
...being played to a frazzle on the radio, whistled to death in the streets, performed every fourth dance in London hotels and clubs. The dance-an easy, arm-in-arm walk, mock-Cockney fashion, with simple turns, knee-slappings and, at the end, a shout of "Hey!" or "Oi!" -had reached the continent, had penetrated even to Scotland. And last week, Arthur Murray, Manhattan dance teacher, returned from Europe with the Lambeth Walk at his toe-tips, vowing to launch it as a U. S. diversion. Said he: "It will undoubtedly be better than the Big Apple...