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...felt that Fascism should have outgrown the necessity for such moves were withered last week by Il Duce's announcement that he was thinking seriously of taking over three more Cabinet posts, the Ministries of War, Navy, and Air, amalgamated in a single. Ministry of Defense. The Air Minister, plump, bearded Italo Balbo, who has listened so patiently to so many Mussolini speeches, will probably receive an important consolation prize. Minister of the Navy Giuseppe Sirianni and Minister of War Pietro Gazzera will probably be retired. Because the Italian Red Cross has grown so great, it is likely that...
...raucous New Yorkers echoed in the Grand Central Station last week as their saucy little Mayor. James John Walker, entrained for Albany. A few hostile boos were silenced by cheers and police fists. With the Mayor, as usual when he is in a tight place politically, was his plump little wife, Janet Allen Walker, carrying her white poodle Togo. "My place," she said, "is beside my husband. If the worst comes, we can go to my Iowa farm." Three hours later when the Mayor left his private car at Albany, the Brothers O'Connell, local Democratic bosses, on hand...
Last week King George had a dinner of fine plump red Scotch grouse shipped by express from Balmoral Castle, but many another grouse-loving Briton ate mutton or went hungry. On the morning of the Twelfth-opening date of the Scottish grouse season-a violent thunderstorm swept over the moors, leaving boggy ground and a heavy mist in its wake. Sportsmen standing ankle-deep in the sticky peat of shooting butts had no sooner begun popping at dimly seen grouse than another storm broke and drove them home. But not before a gamekeeper had been shot dead at Clonmannon. Growled...
More sensitive than the horses, Dubliners went to some lengths to avoid friction. Pale, plump, plutocratic H. H. the Aga Khan gave his usual trophy for international Army jumping. For years the only time that the strains of "God Save the King" have impinged in public on Free State air has been at the opening of the Dublin Horse Show when the British Army team rides into the ring. Not to abrade further the nerves already rubbed raw by President de Valera's squabble over the land annuities (see col. 2), the British Army team withdrew last week before...
...Short, plump, slow-spoken Publisher John Marcus Lansinger had a new son, John Marcus Jr., described as the publisher's "second issue," his first being Joan...