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...distribution free to the 45,000,000 subjects of King Edward in the United Kingdom "in the event of an emergency." The Home Secretary Sir John Simon, speaking in behalf of his bill to ban the wearing of "political uniforms" (TIME, Nov. 16), told the House with an owlish air of knowing more than he could reveal: "Information has reached me which goes to show that both in the case of Fascist and Communist organizations, their funds have been supplemented from abroad...
...papers. This year, with newspaper advertising revenues rising, smart Mr. Smart figured that it would be a good time to offer papers some other features as well. Last July Esquire Features, Inc. was quietly formed in Chicago, Esquire's home town. From the Chicago News went able, owlish Howard Denby to be the new syndicate's vice president and editor. Quickly Mr. Denby allied the Esquire syndicate with the News by arranging for it to market two News features, Howard Vincent O'Brien's column All Things Considered, and Naturalist Donald Culross Peattie...
...official wrath is directed equally at Tokyo and at Berlin. Russia fears she is going to feel German and Japanese pincers pricking the Soviet union on both flanks. That ink is newly dry on a Japanese-German secret treaty of military alliance is charged in resounding Moscow speeches by owlish Soviet Premier Molotov and that popular eagle of the Red Army, Defense Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov. Since the Soviet Secret Service is definitely keen, Dictator Joseph Stalin anticipated months ago that the Japanese, feeling Germany to be with them, would in time pass from hesitant encroachment and frontier incidents to such...
...that the U. S. could support a public debt of 855,000,000,000 to 870,000,000,000, the Press went at last to Princeton's small, bald "Money Doctor" Edwin Walter Kemmerer, whose twin enthusiasms are the gold standard and shimmy dancing. Such a debt, declared owlish Economist Kemmerer, ''would be very oppressive but doubtless could be carried...
Sued for Separation. Edward J. Reilly. 53, owlish, bulky chief defense counsel at the murder trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann; by Fleurette Reilly, 31, his fifth wife (according to Fleurette Reilly) ; in White Plains, N. Y. Charges: abusive treatment, drunkenness, "association with women of lewd and questionable habits.'' Lawyer Reilly had previously filed a separation suit of his own, charging that his wife tore his clothes, broke his glasses...