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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park veranda under the warm spell of the President's personal charm, patient, loyal Secretary Hull forgot his injured pride, swore new allegiance to the Administration. Carefully he explained the whys & wherefores of the Conference collapse. Britain had been a disappointment. The foreign Press behaved outrageously. Europe wanted the best of every bargain. The President was most sympathetic, expressed complete confidence in his foreign minister, sent him away with a smile to prepare for another conference, that of the Pan-American Union in Montevideo in September...
...with a big Sikorsky, flew them to the Nairobi ranch, amazed them with a dinner that any U.S. hostess might have been proud of- cocktails and caviar, soup, fish, roast turkey (the best I ever tasted), tiny new fresh peas, potatoes, salad, ice cream with strawberries and coffee." The spell of Africa for Frederick Trubee Davison is of far longer standing than his short tenure of the museums presidency. It goes back 20 of his 37 years to the time his rich father, the late Henry Pomeroy Davison, avid angler and huntsman, returned from an African shooting trip with tales...
...appeared 588 frightened witnesses. A strapping, six-foot Irishman elected State's Attorney on an anti-racket platform and a hard-hitting little criminal lawyer named Raber were the spearheads of the attack. Ahead lay the city's first real chance to get convictions and break a spell which holds a bil lion dollars worth of business in thrall to crooked labor unions and their underworld "gorillas...
Myrna Loy, who has probably appeared in more different lands in movie versions than any other star, is the lovely white woman who falls under the spell of her Arab dragomen escorting her into the sands where she is to meet Reginald Denny, her fiance. One anticipates she will be carried off to the tribe and married by force. She is kidnapped but a blow across the face convinces the Arab that she doesn't like fooling, and his prize goes back to her white engineer. With a price on his head Jamil returns to Cairo and just as Diana...
...Chinese and 10,000 Japanese dead, after two years of undeclared war from Manchuria down through Jehol Province into an arc south of the Great Wall, last fortnight's truce had by last week actually brought to North China what Premier Wang Ching-wei called a "breathing spell." To bind the verbal agreement, Chinese Lieut. General Hsiung Ping last week went to Tangku on the seacoast. As he stepped off his swank special train, he saw two Japanese destroyers tied at the docks. Their guns were trained on Tangku, the gun turrets manned. A Chinese armored train pulled...