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Benito Mussolini in his strutting, self-appointed rôle as "Protector of the Mohammedans" has vexed Britain and France for years by giving asylum in Rome to prominent Islamites who for one reason or another have been run out of the Great Powers' colonies. Last week these sloe-eyed clients of the sloe-eyed Duce were zealously trying to recruit for him fierce Arab troops for use as mercenaries against Ethiopia. In Jerusalem, however, the Emir Abdullah of Transjordania, who keeps his throne with the aid of British bombing planes, lashed out with an interview which made prime...
...generalissimo of Mexico's war on the Catholic Church, Boss Plutarco Elias Calles, was last week in a Los Angeles hospital recovering from an operation on his gall bladder. The leader of the Church's counterattack, fat, sloe-eyed Archbishop Pascual Diaz, sat grimly in the Archiepiscopal Palace in Mexico City. While the Government persecuted his flock, the Primate of All Mexico, who is a pure Jalisco Indian, held in reserve one dread (to Catholics) weapon, the awful word of excommunication, which he may pronounce, the Pope may confirm...
Ever since Benito Mussolini married off a sloe-eyed daughter of Italian King Vittorio-Emanuele III to earnest Tsar Boris of Bulgaria, France and her "Little Entente" Allies have been working to counteract Il Duce's supposed influence on the Bulgarian Court. Both Little Entente kings-Carol of Rumania and Alexander of Jugoslavia-have been courting Boris. A "Three-Kings Conference" of Boris, Carol and Alexander is in prospect at Sofia on Jan. 31, the day after Boris's next birthday. Last week the Tsar of the Bulgars took his Italian-born Tsaritsa to Jugoslavia to break...
...Dorf & Co. has Messrs. Nuyens & Co.'s French vermouth and grenadine, Schweppes' table waters, Holloway's London Dry and Sloe gins, Powers' Three Swallow Irish whiskey...
...shops by sheer want, for orders are not so many or so pressing that they cannot be filled next week as well as today. Nothing beyond pure benevolence or consideration on the part of the employers can bring any alleviation of the workers position, and the operators in the sloe industry are not widely noted for such philanthropy. In short, strikes in this region are hardly more than brave gestures, yet the Massachusetts trouble merely reflects the country-wide stalemate between Capital and Labor, satisfactory to neither party...