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...border, Delaware's 52 Legislators for the most part commute to work by automobile. One hundred and fifty other State officials and employes live in Dover all the time, pride themselves on the town's small but famed biggest factory, Richardson & Robbins Co. (canners of chickens and plum puddings...
...Berlin's Kroll Opera House last week, poured in brown streams down the aisles and oozed into their seats. Almost the only ununiformed Deputy was Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, a Papal Chamberlain and Nazi-dom's valued link with Rome. His immaculate cutaway made a black plum in the brown Nazi pudding. For the first time since the War no Deputy was a Jew, a Communist, a Socialist, a woman...
Among the foods which have been purchased are 190 pounds of turkey, 230 pounds of other meats, 280 pounds of apples, 289 pounds of sweet potatoes, 96 plum puddings, 230 pounds of onions, and 230 pounds of squash. Any students with cars who are willing to help deliver these dinners should see Miss Hamilton at Phillips Brooks House today...
...true, but in all parts of Japan the Army is recruited chiefly from among the peasantry and the Army takes care of its own. Last week Army pressure, which has shaken enormous "gifts" for peasant relief out of the wealthy families of Japan, shook probably the biggest philanthropic plum in Japanese history out of the Empire's richest family, the stupendous banking, industrial and trading House of Mitsui which in normal times owns or has under charter a trading fleet as large as the entire mercantile marine of France and has been vastly rich since Poet William Shakespeare...
...helpful man, he was much put upon by the polyglot bohemians. He once made an appointment at the British Embassy for Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhofen; she showed up "simply dressed in a brassière of milktins connected by dog chains and wearing on her head a plum-cake...