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Foreign investors who have kept on hoping that Germany will repay at least her "private debts" ($1,000,000,000) in money of some sort, were rudely shaken when a blunt electioneering speech was barked by Chancellor Franz von Papen last week to plump, approving Westphalian industrialists at Paderborn...
...cylinders by a pump. Complex lubrication is dispensed with by mixing oil with the gasoline. That advantage largely accounted for the failure of most experiments to date: the burned oil left heavy carbon deposits. Last week a new, light two-cycle engine was described by Dick Roberts, plump aviation editor of the Toledo Blade. It had just been flown for Army & Navy observers by a Toledoan, Bert Naseef, cousin of Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak. Invented by one B. J. Augustine, built by Champion Rotary Motors Co. of Buffalo for which Bert Naseef is test pilot, the engine...
...Your Hands!" Plump and harmless as a tabby. Labor Leader "Uncle" Arthur Henderson tried to keep the Party on its well-worn track of merely Talking Socialism. "Labor must be definitely international in its outlook," he orated vaguely. "The National Government is Toryism without disguise. . . . There is need for an advance toward Socialism. . . ." Taking this bit in their teeth, the delegates galloped, bolted. While Leader Henderson begged and pleaded for "caution" the Congress ignored him, cheered to the echo a "labor intellectual," Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (onetime President of the Board of Education) who proposed to block the possibility that...
...directly responsible for this G. 0. P. campaign was plump, easy-going National Chairman Everett Sanders. A small-bore Indiana politician, he appeared to his colleagues to be completely swamped by the magnitude of his job. Last week in Manhattan he beamed serious good cheer. "The campaign," he insisted, "is going along very well. We are in splendid condition. The country is Republican by several million votes. We have a good Republican President. . . . The tour of Governor Roosevelt through the West has tremendously helped the Republican party...
Last week big, plump Publisher Lee Ellmaker walked into the barnlike plant of Woman's World on Chicago's West Side, went upstairs, signed a paper. When he walked out of the building he owned Woman's World, presses, name and building lease...