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...always, cocked and primed to talk about his "martyrdom." He expected no redress from the California Court, he said, but had great hopes for a final victory before the U. S. Supreme Court. Twenty pounds heavier than when he left San Francisco, he was tanned, seemed fully alert despite his 52 years and nearly a generation behind bars. His "prison heart," a nervous cardio-vascular affliction, did not appear to bother him, but in the general excitement he could not keep back the tears. "I'll be all right," wept Tom Mooney. "It's the shock, coming back here?back...
With Britain showing the cleanest possible diplomatic hands this week, with Standard Oil the butt of slashing attacks by New Deal newspapers, and with Ethiopia's Emperor soured on the U. S., alert London financiers called conditions ripe for Promoter Rickett to obtain his vast concession afresh for British interests if Standard Oil really does not want...
...that Ethiopia's Emperor, like an incipient bankrupt who hastily transfers his assets, had handed oil concessions covering more than half his realm to a British Master of Foxhounds with swank London connections (see p. 23). Instantly the French Left Parties, hostile to Capitalism and to Imperialism, were alert. M. Herriot and the other Leagophiles began to wonder if British League of Nations Minister Anthony Eden, who had been slated to preach to the League Council this week about Right & Justice, was not either duped or duping. Paris detected a nauseating odor of oil from the direction of London...
Since the Congress opened, alert U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt has several times given Moscow correspondents reason to cable that he was about to make vigorous protest on orders from Washington. Last week, as the World's crack revolutionists prepared to return to their homelands, the Moscow Congress made curious overtures. Its Keynote Spokesman, fiery George Dimitroff, implied in an adroit speech that the Communist Party may support Franklin Roosevelt in the next election because his defeat might enable forces now opposing U. S. Communism to give it a body blow...
...More alert than heretofore, the counterfeiters had apparently thought up a new trick of using urchins to distribute their productions...