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...Communist revolutionaries in various South American countries have been cashing large checks drawn "to bearer" by the Soviet Legation in Montevideo. When it broke off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, it left Russia without a single embassy or legation in any South American country (TIME, Jan. 6). In rip-roaring fashion last week Russia's roly-poly Foreign Minister pitched into Uruguay's Guani and soon sent the League of Nations off into gales of laughter by reading two cablegrams sent to. him in Moscow by the former Soviet Minister to Uruguay who sat beside M. Litvinoff...
Though at first she took him at his face-value as a man of the world, a writer enriched by shrewd trading in the literary market, she soon discovered that "about things of the world he was a child, not a rip." Her measured judgment of him is remarkably serene: "a reserved man with an aesthetic taste, which was partly baroque, partly Methodistic...
Manhattan was not all lights for the Vagabond. The old fellow--as his friends well know--really doesn't belong with Father Knickerbocker's distortions of a rip roaring time; at least not after a night or so of it. So what did the whimsy Vagabond do but up and away with his little brother...
...Rip-snorting out of retirement last week went wizened Philip Snowden, sulphurous First Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw and in his day the Labor Party's great Chancellor of the Exchequer (1924 & 1929-31). As a campaign orator, the noble Viscount has no peer in scathing invective and corrosive scorn. He quit the Labor Party four years ago to campaign for his old friend James Ramsay MacDonald so that the National Government formed at the behest of King George (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931) could triumph at the polls. Last week Viscount Snowden proved that his heart in Britain...
...airplane 2,200 ft. over Dayton last month tumbled a bulky Army doctor with a parachute rip cord in his hand, a determined gleam in his eye, and, since it was his first jump, a tremor of 'fear in his heart. For 1,200 ft. he plummeted end over end at 119 m.p.h. Then he pulled his rip cord, jerked upright as the parachute opened, floated serenely to earth, well pleased because he had just made the first scientific analysis of the "subjective mental and physical reactions to a free fall in space...