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This autumn Tammany Hall has on its hands the toughest municipal campaign in a decade to keep John Patrick O'Brien, its prognathous, bumbling Mayor, in New York City Hall. Against Tammany is arrayed an aggressive fusion ticket headed by short, swart, pugnacious Fiorello La Guardia. City finances are in such a plight that Tammany must impose additional taxes on the eve of election. Yet last week Tammany got two lucky breaks from two grand juries in Manhattan which did much to pluck up its sagging political spirits...
...most spectacular example of Soviet docility came from the Foreign Commissariat. It was discovered that tall, swart Leo M. Karakhan had been quietly transferred from his important post as chief of the Far Eastern section of the Foreign Office, will in the future busy himself with the Near East. And a Moscow court last week gave stiff jail sentences to four Russian coastguardsmen who last July killed three Japanese crab fishermen...
Than Japan and Greece not even Liberia and Labrador would appear to have less in common. Yet one day last week several smiling members of the Japanese Legation in Athens joined several swart Greek Cabinet Ministers on a little steamer and rolled out to the Ionian island of Leucadia (Santa Maura) to honor a common pride: the late exotic Lafcadio Hearn...
...thousand miles due south of the Yangtze lie the Dutch East Indies, whence Royal Dutch-Shell and its swart, dynamic head, Sir Henri Deterding, began their march around the world. In these oil fields Standard Oil, not of New York but of New Jersey, has a heavy stake. Standard of New York's foreign market is all the Near and Far East. Standard of New Jersey abroad concentrates on Europe and South America. Jersey sold oil to Socony for its Chinese markets, but a large part of the production was shut in. Socony meantime was buying Russian...
...great patron of scouting. Count Teleki was in charge of the vast Scout Camp which had its own police, hospital, specially constructed water and lighting systems and a Jamboree newspaper published in five languages. Scottish Scouts stepped out in kilts, French came in green jumpers, blue shorts and berets. Swart Egyptian Scouts wore fezzes, Irak turned out in sun helmets, Siam sent scouts in black hats displaying a tiger's head. But all proper Scouts in the Jamboree used the distinctive salute* of Lord Baden-Powell's "Boy Scouts of the World." Improper and ill at ease were...