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...your influence?" Last week, at Cincinnati, Ohio, the Rev. C. O. Green, Negro Methodist preacher in the Louisville, Ky. district, had the usual question put to him by Negro Bishop Robert Elijah Jones. But Mr. Green did not return the usual answer: he allowed that he smoked. Bishop Jones thereupon barred him from the conference. Said the Bishop: "If a man cannot free himself of the spell of some little inanimate object like a cigaret, how could he expect to resist a real temptation...
...Fascist militia "a gang in the pay of the Government" and the Legions' commander, General Varini, challenged him to a duel. Peppino refused, said the insult had been meant for Mussolini, whom he would gladly fight any day. General Italo Balbo, then commander of all the militia, thereupon challenged him. Peppino still wanted Musso lini. So he shook off the dust of Italy, moved to the U. S. He married Mrs. Madalyn Nichols Taylor of New Orleans, settled down in Manhattan, where he did some radio broadcasting, and in Connecticut, where he tinkered with a Diesel motor...
...Thereupon Premier Mussolini and Count Ciano punked the fuse of an extraordinary chain of diplomatic firecrackers. Italian envoys popped up all over Europe. Il Duce and his son-in-law played faction against faction, until no nation could be sure whether he was coming or going. At first the Allies were favored. Insulting press attacks on the Allies, particularly on Great Britain, were toned down; so was praise of the Axis. Friendly Giuseppe Bastianini was appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Trade talks with a British delegation were nurtured...
...Vermont told the House of Representatives that he was "astounded" when he saw a picture in LIFE of Admiral James Otto Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, with an autographed photo graph of King George VI at his elbow. It was "grossly indiscreet," said Mr. Plumley; thereupon read from Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, which says: ". . . No person holding any office of profit or trust . . . shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince, or foreign state...
...Thereupon Captain Vaughn jumped in, swam ashore with the young woman and with difficulty persuaded a constable to take charge of her. Seven months later, the police handed Captain Vaughn a bill for her maintenance. She was his responsibility, said they. He paid the bills for a while, but finally decided the line was responsible and directed that they be sent to P.A.A. headquarters. From P.A.A. auditors to Captain Vaughn in Miami, nevertheless, went the latest bill for $3.18, Mexican...