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...More trivial things than torn theatre posters have caused serious riots in Tangier. Diagonally across the strait from British-owned Gibraltar, Tangier is nominally under the rule of boyish Sidi Mohammed, Sultan of Morocco. Actually it is ruled by an unwieldy international board composed of a French administrator with Spanish, British and Italian assistants. International feeling is high; Administrator Paul Alberge sent detectives to watch the alley between the French and Spanish cinemas...
...looked out last week across a field of maize and thought he saw two peasant women tussling in the twilight. "Don't touch me, Milica!" screamed one. Cracking his whip and clucking to his nag, the farmer boy jogged on. Reaching home he mentioned with a shrug the trivial incident...
...worry about anything so trivial? Not yet have the front-line trenches of the World War produced anything faintly resembling a good novel, nor to my mind will they. I don't suppose we shall even have a story by a real soldier describing exactly his emotions at the front, pleasure and excitement-the exultation of coming alive to the end of a day and of an action-as well as the pain and horror...
Eleven Governors were called by President Hoover. Seven accepted promptly. Though the oil production of Colorado is comparatively trivial (only about 7,500 barrels per day), that State's Democratic Gov. William H. Adams (centre figure, front cover) was an understanding host to the other executives and oilmen arriving at his State's famed resort. Gov. Adams, now 67, has grown grey and wrinkled in the service of Colorado. For 38 years he was a State Senator...
...conference of U. S. Government leaders at which a modification and reduction of German payments to the U. S. were agreed upon. These changes in U. S. claims, designed as a moral offset to the Stimson statement and as a new gesture of "friendly co-operation,'' were trivial. But they would, if accepted, be sufficient to put the U. S. in a position where its unofficial representatives at Paris could argue that their government was ready to make "a sacrifice'' to secure a new international agreement...