Word: typhoonous
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...typhoon which howled over Luzon two days before was still making bad weather. But the chief reason that comparatively few Filipinos went to the polls last week to elect the first President of their Commonwealth was that the result seemed already in the bag. For Bishop Gregorio Aglipay, leader-founder of the Independent Catholic Church of the Philippines, and for General Emilio Aguinaldo, who has always felt the U. S. double-crossed him after he helped wrest the islands from Spain in 1898. a combination of Communists. Sakdalistas and miscellaneous advocates of immediate independence cast less than 250.000 votes. Twice...
...years. James MacArdle (Wallace Beery) is not a tycoon but a greasy, coastwise racketeer, aware that the Kin Lung carries a fat cargo of gold. McCaleb, the drunken novelist (Robert Benchley), insults his fellow passengers by misunderstanding them completely. High point of the story arrives when, having weathered a typhoon, the Kin Lung is attacked by Malay pirates who are in league with Racketeer MacArdle...
...broken with China Doll to become engaged to Sybil (Rosalind Russell). China Doll, chagrined, has stolen his key to the ship's armory, given it to MacArdle. The owner of the line (C. Aubrey Smith) has delivered a short talk on the lure of the Orient. During the typhoon a lashed steamroller has rolled loose on deck, crushing coolies until, owing to the cowardice of his third officer (Lewis Stone), Captain Gaskell is forced to rechain it almost singlehanded. When the pirates board the Kin Lung they first attach a Malay boot to Captain Gaskell's right foot...
Such a maneuver may be "neat," but Dutchmen fearfully wondered last week how often the Queen & Colijn may have to repeat a master stroke involving one-fifth of the nation's gold reserve. Amid Depression's typhoon, as the Dutch guilder is threatened in crisis after crisis, The Netherlands Bank frantically hoists its discount rate to 6% during the storms to attract as much gold as possible, then hastily reefs it down to 2½% during the lulls to give Dutch business the benefit of "cheap money." Inevitably such desperate sailing scares the passengers half out of their...
...that, although the Gold Blee counties weathered their internal difficulties of the past week, the situation remains unchanged and that sooner or later the gold standard will be abandoned. At one time the storms of last week seemed about to rock the boat and there are signs of a typhoon in the offing. This question of the effect of abandonment on our markets has split the experts into two distinct schools of thought. One camp maintains that it will be the starting gun for an international inflation race and that commodities and stocks will rise abruptly. The other group holds...