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First blatant Adolf Hitler's brown-shirted Nazi (National Socialist) Party was "tamed" by the first setback received since they started two years ago on their skyrocket rise. The Nazis dropped from 230 Reichstag seats to 195 and in each of Germany's 35 electoral districts their vote fell off, nowhere by less than 10,000 ballots. Nazis suffered their worst setback in President Paul von Hindenburg's home district of East Prussia...
...Tardieu skyrocket went up, twice. In the first Tardieu Cabinet there was no Pierre Laval; in the second he was unobtrusively Minister of Labor; and when this Cabinet fell his chance almost came. Briand and Tardieu both insisted that Laval be asked to form a Cabinet. He tried and he failed, because by a typical quirk of "loyalty to my friend André" (Tardieu) he insisted that in a Cabinet of which he was Premier his friend must be a Minister. To form a cabinet including Friend Andre at that moment proved impossible. Again M. Laval slipped into obscurity...
Their standard-bearer was that political skyrocket, stocky, peppery Major Camillien Houde of Montreal. There is nothing conservative about Mr. Houde except his party. He first appeared in politics less than ten years ago when he unexpectedly won a seat in the Legislature from the stanch Liberal division of Sainte-Marie, Montreal. Since then he has shot from post to post, winning not only the mayoralty of Montreal but the leadership of the Conservative Party in the province. In his drive for the Premiership he has stumped Quebec all summer hurling accusations of gross extravagance at Premier Taschereau, blaming...
Publicity Ladies. Nicely timed to give publicity to the planes exhibited at the National Aircraft Show in Detroit, three record flights by women were made last week: Elinor Smith flew a Bellanca Skyrocket to (apparently) 32,500 ft. over New York; at Philadelphia, Amelia Earhart Putnam piloted a Pitcairn autogiro to 19,000 ft., higher than an autogiro had ever been flown; at Detroit, Ruth Nichols streaked along a 3-kilometer course at 210 m. p. h.-almost 30 m. p. h. faster than a record set by Miss Earhart...
...Skyrocket," an individual who dives 80 ft., his clothes flaming, into a little tank of water-"Candy" Hammer and his Congress of Wild West Riders of the World - the Van de Velde Family, "Greatest gymnasts of all time!"-Mayme Ward, the only lady catcher in the world and her troupe of Flying Wards (29 people in the air at one & the same time!)- who would be hiring and advertising such folk but the greatest show-business man now on earth, John Ringling...