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Several Italian-anti-Fascists (kept back from the Rex at Nice by vigilant French police who feared a bomb plot): "Abbasso Fascismo! Down with Fascism! Abbasso Mussolini!"
Hearing of Press-agent chatter that his brother-in-law's nephew Prince Ned Svasti, Princeton undergraduate, was thinking of marrying a New York dance-hall hostess, vigilant King Prajadhipok of Siam sent warning that Prince Ned Svasti must do no such thing.
Since export of capital from Germany was restricted by drastic decrees, vigilant German frontier guards had seized at the Dutch frontier alone up to last week 15,000,000 marks in cash, jewelry and postage stamps.
*Chinese used to say that floods on the Yangtze-kiang augured the fall of the imperial dynasty. Engineer Herbert Clark Hoover, who has fought floods in China as well as in Mississippi and New England, explains that this Chinese saying makes excellent sense. The levees of the Yangtze are protected...
In Akron, Mr. Litchfield enjoys saying, his dislike of a landsman's life "forced him up in the air." He made his first balloon flight in 1911 and as superintendent spurred his company into the business of making balloons. Yet he never lost his love of salt water. He...