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...America of today faces a crisis. Other nations are arming, outfitting troops, building battleships and cancelling debts. Europe bristles with bayonets. Asia rules with cruisers, pineapples, and typewriters, every coolie packs a rod. Africa, whilom house of the laughter loving lion, is now a hornet's nest of poison darts, dum dum bullets, King Kong and Frank Buck. War is imminent. (Advertisement courtesy of the National Students League.) In a chaos of Hate and Strife we find ourselves, swept along by irresistible currents, pursued by a thousand enemies, unable to save ourselves by uttering a long quavering squeal...
...Pricked ears as the air-minded Duke of Sutherland, chairman of the Royal Aero Club and whilom Parliamentary Under Secretary for War (1928-29) demanded to know what was Britain's fighting strength in the air and whether His Majesty's Government did not propose to increase...
Elder J. P. Morgan partners ate their dinners elsewhere, but the firm sent young S. Parker Gilbert, whilom Agent General for Reparations, to a banquet at Manhattan's tall-towered Waldorf-Astoria last week for Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff...
Phil Scott, whilom British heavyweight ring champion (Jack Sharkey defeated him in three rounds at Miami, 1930), proprietor of a beauty shop at Thornton Heath, was engaged as boxing instructor to Egypt's police...
Interstate Power Co., subsidiary of Utilities Power & Light Corp., headed by Harley Lyman Clarke, whilom (1930-32) cineman...