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Hardest working, quickest acting Foreign Minister in Europe is Signor Dino Grandi, spade-bearded, snapping-eyed. Last week he: 1) Appointed Edda Mussolini's husband to be Consul General at Shanghai, China; 2) Sought to soothe French statesmen ruffled by Il Duce's warlike outbursts (TIME, June 2) with a proposal that both France and Italy suspend naval building during 1930 and try to reach an accord; 3) Rushed off to Warsaw for a week's confab with Polish statesmen "on matters of trade...
Belief that Serbian assassins are still quickest on the trigger was fortified, last week, by the conduct of Mme. Darinka Radojevitch, socially prominent and temperamental wife of a leading Belgrade builder...
...Canada there are only ten banks, each with many branches. For a long period the quickest growing of these was the Royal Bank, which by 1927 held 26.09% of Canada's banking resources. Last week the Royal Bank became the Dominion's first billion-dollar bank, when it reported that total assets for the year ended Nov. 30 were $1,001,442,741-a gain of about $92,000,000 during the year...
...needs of a small island whose traditional outlet for its surplus products has been found in catering to the highly diversified and specialized requirements of markets in every corner of the globe. The central quest to which British energies should be directed is the discovery of the quickest way of exploiting our acknowledged pre-eminence as producers of high quality goods...
...committee of businessmen and incredulous newsgatherers rushed to Maracay. The businessmen begged the Dictator-President to reconsider. The newsmen waited confidently for the grand scene of "reluctant" acquiescence. But at the end of an hour-long conference, out dashed the newsmen to the Maracay telegraph office. The quickest one cabled...