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Months of bickering between two sister dominions ended in an ominous quarrel last week when Sister New Zealand said in effect...
...worldly woman, "tine petite fille," he sees great merit. Fortnight ago French Justice was generous to small Mrs. Charlotte Nixon-Nirdlinger ("Miss St. Louis 1923"). She was acquitted at Nice of murdering her U. S. husband, after confessing that she shot him at the black end of a jealous quarrel (TIME, June 1, et ante). Last week large Texas Guinan got no French generosity whatever, was held at Havre in a room with barred windows, having as furniture three iron beds and one spittoon...
Greenland, cause of this happily averted quarrel, is Denmark's only colony and three times as large as Denmark. Eskimos are still almost the only inhabitants of Greenland, not because there are no opportunities for Danes and others there, but because Denmark shuts out all foreign immigration and permits only a handful of Danes to reside in Greenland, half of them workers in the cryolite mines. This curious policy, which costs Denmark about $150,000 per year in Colonial outlay (Greenland could easily be "made to pay"), is based on a philanthropic concept: Greenland for the Eskimos...
...home into last night thoroughly disgruntled. And the Vagabond is herein chronicling his side of the story for his own protection and, needs must add, watch out what Dr. Hu Flung Huey will do to those boat races! And that, too is not the mere bias of a literary quarrel as if may seem...
...them her Long Island estate, was fretting last week for an appeal to Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was sailing home from France after visiting his sick mother. Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Coffey-Humber eastern attorney and most temperate of all contestants in the great California-New York cancer treatment quarrel, decided he would not go to court at once, would rather ask the Welfare Board for a rehearing...