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Chairman of the League Council today is Dr. Eduard Benes, now being actively groomed for election as President of Czechoslovakia, famed as "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman." When Dr. Benes received last week the Emperor's demand that the Assembly be convened "immediately" it was second nature to him to have Secretary General Joseph Avenol cable back immediately to Addis Ababa that the League Council, generally dominated by the Great Powers, could scarcely be expected to convene the Assembly before itself deliberating so important a question. This maneuver effectively put the League of Nations into a dead stall...
...York is hustling young William Maloney. He went to Fordham University and his middle name is Power. Last week William Power Maloney obtained a $4,500,000 mail fraud indictment against three young Yalemen, 49 other individuals and 20 corporations-biggest mail fraud indictment in U. S. history. Smartest of the three Yalemen was Wallace G. Garland, Class of 1925 (Sheffield). Member of a solid Pittsburgh family, he was not a conspicuous undergraduate except as a brilliant student. Even Professor Irving Fisher liked his original notions on business and economics. But Yaleman Garland's notions were far more original...
...Smartest trick of the week was a decision by His Majesty's Government that, whereas His Majesty's subjects will vote on Nov. 14, dole payments to unemployed with children will be upped one-third...
...Hungarian Throne to His Apostolic Majesty. This did not work. Clearly last week the idea of making "Emperor Otto" his own throne-squatter as Regent was among the best ideas the House of Habsburg has had in years. It was, however, not good enough to satisfy "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," famed Dr. Eduard Benes, perpetual squatter in the post of Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia and nemesis of the Habsburgs. In his official newsorgan Prager Presse, Dr. Benes fired a double-barreled editorial warning as the spokesman of the Little Entente (Czechosloakia, Yugoslavia & Rumania). First he declared that...
...played by Virginia Broome Mullane, a farmer's wife who has two children, sings in a church choir. Thaddeus was Evan Davies who studied music in Chicago, now rides a tractor across the fat fields of Iowa. The Gypsy Queen was a chicken authority, Devilshoof one of the smartest farmers in Hardin County...