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Nominee Hylan hopes to gain Republican support as a fusion candidate. Against his hopes looms the short, swart figure of Manhattan Republican Congressman Fiorello H. La Guardia, who expects the Republican mayoral nomination. By way of preparation, Congressman La Guardia last week went to the U. S. Army hospital at Hot Springs. Ark., had his tonsils removed...
Kemal Djenany Bey, slender, swart Second Secretary of the Turkish Embassy in Washington, drove last week with a friend through Fairfax, Va., was halted by two state prohibition officers. Fisticuffing followed, from which Djenany Bey emerged with two black eyes. Arrested, he produced his diplomatic card, claimed immunity, was released. The officers said he had been driving wildly. Djenany Bey declared that the Turkish Government would demand a public apology. Witnesses of the encounter suspected that much of the trouble arose because the dusky diplomat had been mistaken for a Negro...
Quick to his feet rose New York's short, swart Congressman La Guardia. The La Guardia corpuscles, and many a La Guardia constituent, are Latin. Mr. La Guardia arose to defend the fame of that late great Latin, Christopher Columbus. "The House,'' he cried, "ought not to attempt to write history." While expressing 'the greatest admiration and love and affection for the people of Iceland." he clung to the "tangible historical record of the discovery by Columbus...
Dead Bird. Railways, roads, steamships and sewers are signs of civilization, but they cost money. Last week, swart Ahmed Bey Zogu Mati, King of Albania, made an effective yet inexpensive gesture toward westernizing his troubled kingdom by decreeing that in future all of his subjects must give up the old Mohammedan custom of taking the name of the town or village in which they live, and adopt good European names. Setting the fashion, Albania's King dropped the village name of Mati, dropped the u from Zogu (u in Albanian means "bird") and adopted the simple, resounding title...
Navy it. Syracuse. Navy's swart little Coxswain Rivero barked cheerily to his crew at Annapolis last week and the crew answered by finishing five lengths ahead of panting Syracuse...