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...Brooke) boasts in the British Who's Who that he has "led several expeditions into the far interior of the country to punish head hunters" and "understands the management of natives." Last week Rajah Brooke sailed over to the great British Singapore Naval Base just opposite his realm and horned in on an exciting Conference of Admirals...
...succession in Nazi leadership by means similar to those insuring that there shall always be a Pope. Rolling out the polysyllabic titles now being drafted by Nazis into the new Constitution, a spokesman for Herr Hitler said that he will be Der Reichsführer ("Leader of the Realm...
Dropping his search in the world field and turning his eyes toward home, the Man-of-the-Year-hunter would discover no likely candidates in the realm of sport. No golfer won more than one big match, and Robert Tyre Jones's record of 1930 (British & U. S. open, British & U. S. amateur) had not been remotely approached. Frank Shields, who was left off the Davis Cup team for his erratic playing, was named No. 1 U. S. tennist, after Ellsworth Vines turned professional. As picked by the Pulitzer Prize judges, Maxwell Anderson's Both Your Houses might...
...made than could be used. Last week the wand waved again and the President decreed that all the residents of the Tennessee Valley should have electrical gadgets to burn up the excess current. By executive order, he created the Electric Home & Farm Authority to provide cheap credit in the realm of the TVA for the sale of electric stoves, refrigerators, water heaters, irons, toasters, sewing machines, waffle irons, etc. Appliance makers have agreed to furnish a standard low price line which will be handled by regular dealers and the private utilities. Dealers and utilities will discount instalment paper with...
Pope Pius XI, whose tight little temporal realm has long been considered immune from depression, last week instituted retrenchments which may eventually save him $3,000.000 per year. First step: a pay cut for 1,000 church employes in Vatican City and Rome. Salaries above 1,000 lire ($82) per month will be slashed 10%; those above 2,000 lire 15%. Thus affected will be 22 resident cardinals who get 100,000 lire per year...