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Only troubles with this advertisement were that no arms were being exhibited for sale at the Old Manchu Arsenal, and that there were no such persons as Romulus & Remus, Auctioneers. Editor Woodhead was merely trying in his own resourceful way to stir up as much Chinese rumpus as possible and prevent some Italians from disposing secretly of a much smaller quantity of smuggled arms. Straightforward editorials in his best British vein had failed to get results. Therefore Editor Woodhead touched off his fake advertisement with volcanic results, as droves of Chinese police rushed about looking...
...time before then Il Duce is open to a fresh and better offer from Geneva than the one made at Paris by Premier Laval and Captain Eden which he turned down (TIME, Aug. 26), and the one before that made by Eden in Rome which raised such a rumpus when the House of Commons learned that this handsome young man had proposed prematurely to barter away part of the British Empire (TIME, July...
...editorial "Futile Bluster" blithely dismisses the New England textile problem by advising New England to "transfer its capital and labor into other fields of industrial activity." Conceding the superficiality of the rumpus over the processing tax and Hearst's Japanese situation, we find that this problem presents many difficulties not covered by the editorial...
...evening last week climbed 50 relief workers. Each one was armed with a long pole, a tin can partly filled with pebbles, a promise of six hours work each night at 40? per hr. "If there's anything the starlings hate," gloated Superintendent Lanham, "it's the rumpus and clatter of the cans. They'll flee for dear life." Setting up a frightful din, the workers rattled and poked. As predicted, the starlings fled-to the eaves and cornices of nearby buildings, where they resumed their own annoying chatter. Superintendent Lanham was not baffled. First windless night...
...citizens who were found to have raised the standard of religion. On the other hand, Godless Yaroslavsky was keeping up a keen fight in the Moscow Press with organized young Red zealots who claim that shock brigadiers like themselves have no time for the bliss of placid wedlock. The rumpus started when Komsomolskaya Pravda, newsorgan of the 5,000,000 Communist Youths, printed a symposium of letters from its readers...