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...realized that King Alexander was not giving up so much. Strengthened by several members of the last parliamentary regime, the Cabinet he has had through the dictatorship remains in power. The Constitution forbids the organization of racial or religious groups which might threaten his government. There is an at tempt to stop political assassinations by solemnly reviving a 120-year-old law providing that all Senators and Deputies must leave their pistols, their daggers and their bludgeons in a special check room before entering Parliament. What Jugoslavian citizens really receive is an increase in local autonomy, a chance to vote...
...When business is good in the business world the U. S. Navy has to advertise with gaudy posters and man its recruiting stations with nattily dressed sailors to tempt the satisfied civilian. Many recruits, once in, get out by the simple expedient of going and staying A. W. 0. L. (absent without leave). For long-continued absence-without-leave the Navy has a harsher name: Desertion. The penalty in peacetime may be 30 days bread and water; in wartime it is death. In 1927, 1,092 men deserted the Navy. Since then the number has steadily declined: in 1928 there...
...Little Fellows Being Squeezed Out after a long period of overproduction. The exit of Quincy and its fellows is less significant than it might be for all U. S. copper producers are shut down to a greater or less extent at the moment. Present prices are too low to tempt much production activity. Copper men viewed with reluctance the suggestion made at Washington that they market their product at its present price in Germany on credit...
Hostess Belle Livingstone of Manhattan's "Fifty-Eighth Street Country Club" (TIME, Nov. 10 et seq.) was taken again to federal court and found guilty of con tempt for having violated a personal in junction restraining her from liquor dealing. The defeated defense counsel maintained that Miss Livingstone did not own the Club, was there as paid hostess only in order to gather material for her forthcoming work, With Livingstone in Darkest America. The judge sentenced her to 30 days in Harlem Prison, to which she was conducted by press & police forthwith. One newshawk reported the warden as greeting...
...home and tempt Mahatma Gandhi, who wants "independence" now, with the promise that if his Nationalist party will cooperate the British Government will grant to India "Reserved Dominion Status" in the immediate future, and full Dominion Status in the distant future...