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...Hungarian Throne to His Apostolic Majesty. This did not work. Clearly last week the idea of making "Emperor Otto" his own throne-squatter as Regent was among the best ideas the House of Habsburg has had in years. It was, however, not good enough to satisfy "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," famed Dr. Eduard Benes, perpetual squatter in the post of Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia and nemesis of the Habsburgs. In his official newsorgan Prager Presse, Dr. Benes fired a double-barreled editorial warning as the spokesman of the Little Entente (Czechosloakia, Yugoslavia & Rumania). First he declared that...
...played by Virginia Broome Mullane, a farmer's wife who has two children, sings in a church choir. Thaddeus was Evan Davies who studied music in Chicago, now rides a tractor across the fat fields of Iowa. The Gypsy Queen was a chicken authority, Devilshoof one of the smartest farmers in Hardin County...
This deal having been consummated, "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," Dr. Eduard Benes, perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, set off last week for a goodwill visit to Moscow. As his train halted in Warsaw, Col. Josef Beck, Germanophile Polish Foreign Minister, was pointedly not at the station, snubbed Dr. Benes by sending only minor Polish officials to greet...
...dean of the university's Lumpkin Law School. A slight, boyish bachelor, he has clean-cut features, flawless Southern manners and a bashfulness in the presence of women which betrays a life spent at his books & business. Some thirty years ago he was distinguishing himself as the smartest boy in Haralson, Ga. Twenty years ago he was the smartest student at Boys' High School at Atlanta. He spent two years going through the University of Georgia, two more teaching, before he entered Harvard Law School in 1921. Graduated, he taught for three years at Emory University, then...
...Rags is Max Kalik, fiftyish, a suave, affluent bookmaker noted for his $200 suits, his good manners and his sporty English cashier, Sidney ("Sir Sid-ney") Gooch, who wears loud tweeds and speaks with a Cockney accent. A onetime Manhattan ragman, "Kid Rags" operates the biggest book at the smartest U. S. track, Belmont Park, finds most of his trade in Wall Street, specializes in bets from...