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Club for the expressed purpose of determining the best air route across the Atlantic. But spade-bearded General Italo Balbo, promoter of the conference, was not really looking for information. He was well satisfied with the lane from West Africa to Brazil across which he had led a squadron of ten seaplanes last year. General Balbo had something else on his mind: a proposal that all nations open their airports to international commercial traffic as seaports admit ships of all flags. The delegates were without authority but could direct sentiment...
...what does the Vagabond do, you will ask? There are any number of things he can do. He can spade in the garden, or ride a horse, or go swimming, or talk to urchins, but he mostly sits, or "goes singin' like the mornin' stars for joy that he was made." And there is, too, in New Hampshire a wine of the country that used to be made from Russets, but now is ground from Baldwins. Boys at college distil it and call it applejack, but the farmers of New Hampshire keep it in a 50-gallon keg and call...
...beast to the U. S. is the muskrat, which yields $25,000,000 worth of pelts per year. But in Great Britain the muskrat is a trial & tribulation. Last month Parliament passed a law condemning to death every British muskrat-at-large. Last week with trap, gun, gas and spade England's Minister of Agriculture Sir John Gilmour and Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Scotland, set forth to destroy all the muskrats in the United Kingdom...
...London pressfolk were distressed to see their Prime Minister's optimism wither and fade a few hours after he had made welcome, in the cream & gold Cabinet Room at No. 10 Downing St., the members of the Danube Conference at which Britain, France, Germany and Italy sat in. Plainly, spade-bearded Dino Grandi, snapping-eyed Italian Foreign Minister, was smoldering with anger and so was Germany's Dr. Bernhard W. von Bülow, a nephew of the late great Prince & Chancellor. Honest Scot MacDonald was made from the first to feel that his prior conversations with Premier Tardieu had been...
...urbane, worldly even. He is reported to have invented a new system of bridge-bidding but he insists that "too much stress is being laid on this side of my affairs." On his way to Montreal last month Monsignor Turquetil watched four men playing bridge. One bid a spade His partner, with four aces and three kings, passed. "I took one look at their hands,'' said the Arctic Bishop, "and then, overwhelmed, I moved into the next parlor...