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...listen to any foreign broadcast they can tune in. To reach British ears with the Nazi side of World War II, Germany broadcasts in English, sometimes as much as eight hours a day. Most familiar voice from Germany, to most British listeners, speaks daily from Zeesen in exaggerated pip-pip English, caning British high-ups and war policies; deploring the blockade with: "Rehly, you British, it isn't manlah!" Some listeners think this hyper-Oxonian voice is Traitor Norman Baillie-Stewart's, some think it is Dr. Helmut Hoffman's, who once lectured on Naziism in Scotland...
Missing were first-sacker Lupe Lupien and infielder Fred Heckel, and former Yardling outfielder Pip Cutler, all of whom will report in early March after the finish of winter sports in which they are engaged...
Fascism, meanwhile, was putting on a somewhat pip-squeak show in Rome last week, necessitated by the fact that the Italian-Hungarian-Austrian Protocols have lost one leg of this never very imposing diplomatic tripod. Only thing to do was to make a face-saving announcement that Italy and Hungary now constitute a bipod as faithful as ever to the Fascist cooperative spirit, and for this purpose to Rome last week went Hungary's economic strongman, Banker-Premier Béla Imrédy, who had never before met Mussolini...
This, plus a reviving stockmarket and occasional other loans from friends, tided Richard Whitney over until 1933. About that time, having taken fliers in a lot of such pip-squeak ventures as Florida fertilizer plants, Dick Whitney took the fatal flier of his life: He got into Distilled Liquors Corp. which bought a plant for making applejack. The public eagerly took the stock he offered, but did not take to the applejack. Needing funds to promote the company, Dick Whitney got large loans against his Distilled Liquors stock, which once sold as high as $45 a share. When the price...
...outfielder substituting on the mound, the Yardling ball team was edged out by the Brown Freshmen at Providence yesterday by one run in the eleventh inning which made the score 3 to 2. Regular pitcher Jack Schwede was invalided to Stillman with a bad knee in the seventh, so Pip Cutler was pressed into service from right field...