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...that point is successfully established by the Committee, it is impossible to believe that the French will refuse pointblank to recognize it. That love of legal formality which is part of their national character may cause them to delay active assistance, but in long run France will not sit idly by while the Bruening government falls. Another government in Germany would probably repudiate reparations altogether. The French will not hill the goose that lays the golden eggs...
...were dropped from 5,000 ft. around the target. Only two hits were scored which damaged the rusty freighter hardly at all. The Mt. Shasta still rode high on a calm sea. Two Coast Guard cutters thereupon went alongside, spent two hours firing one-pounders pointblank into her below the water line. At last she filled with water, sank in 150 fathoms. The Navy's mocking grin at the Army's aerial coast defense was broader than ever...
...Richard, rushing from St. John's to Montreal to New York and back, trying to borrow money, insisted that the Colony was not bankrupt, that Newfoundland's financial difficulties were a political plot. Asked pointblank about the Labrador rumor, he said...
...sharing contract with William Randolph Hearst, owner of the Ziegfeld theatre. Publisher Kobler of the Mirror is supposed to have a "slice" of the production; so is Ticket Broker Joe Leblang's widow. Working for others, Ziggy felt he must be surer than ever of success. Accordingly he aimed pointblank at the middle-aged male who is the basic support of all girl shows, by having shapely Faith Bacon open the proceedings with nothing on at all. Gladys Glad, still rated as the most perfect "Zig" ever discovered, was paraded after Miss Bacon, led out by handsome, hard-working Harry...
...Menaced pointblank with Death, President Arosemena appointed as his Secretary of Government & Justice (Prime Minis ter") the No. 1 revolutionist, Senor Harmodio Arias...