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...edge of a bloody revolution, a detachment of U. S. marines stationed at Peking mounted stumpy-legged Mongolian ponies, set to watching over U. S. citizens living outside embassy quarters. Since then, the Peking marines have remained a mounted unit. A fixture in China service, they liked to refer to themselves as "the world's only Horse Marines...
...Germany last week had one of their first good laughs at the expense of the Nazis. For the Nazi Teachers League asserted that henceforth Aryan moppets should have their history purged of Christian symbols: Instead of dates such as 490 B. C. and 1870 A. D. Nazi schoolbooks should refer to 490 V. ZTR. and 1870 N. ZTR., meaning VOR ZEITRECHNUNG and NACH ZEITRECHNUNG (before and after "time computation...
...House of Commons last week, Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, gravely announced that in State papers His Majesty's Government would henceforth refer to the ex-Irish Free State as "Airy." One or two parliamentary eyebrows rose but no M. P. questioned his statement. In Dublin, however, Eamon de Valera looked down his long nose with annoyance. The correct pronunciation of Eire, he firmly announced...
...finance companies did not hire Mr. Croy. I, as counsel for Commercial Credit Co., appeared before Judge Geiger in the proceedings to which you refer. The record of those proceedings clearly shows that Commercial Credit Co. had nothing whatever to do with the employment of Mr. Croy. Neither it nor any of its representatives knew anything about the matter. Counsel for another finance company took sole and personal responsibility for the employment of Mr. Croy, and he stated to the Court that he had not consulted with any other company when he employed Mr. Croy...
...apparent at the end of 1936 . . . that forces were at work which threatened the equilibrium between wages and prices. Then, in the first quarter of 1937, came the development primarily responsible for destroying the existing balance and altering the whole course of events. I refer to the aggressive labor movement...