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Inevitably, after the war, Hungary caught the itch to rearm. The Treaty of Trianon, by which she made peace with the Airlines and Associated Powers, for bade it. Schneider-Creusot, however, was above treaties. Hungary got the money with which to place a large order with Skoda, the Schneider-Creusot subsidiary in Czechoslovakia--got it through the Banquet General de Credit Hongrois; Which in turn is financed by the Banque de 1'Union Parisienne, of which Eugene Schnelder is a director. Thus it was that Schneider contrived once again to circumvent his government and rearm a nation that France...
...make money. There is a thrill in the actual process unequaled by any emotion a man of my years is apt to experience." Last week spare, tight-lipped Speculator Cutten experienced another emotion. The Federal Government, after examining his grain transactions over a long period, cracked down and bade him show cause why he should not be barred from trading in all U. S. contract markets. No less important a New Dealer than Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, as titular head of the Grain Futures Administration, was Speculator Cutten's inquisitor. The Government's chief complaint was that Speculator...
...Presidential trips. He not only examines any room which the President is to enter, but the rooms above and below, all entrances and exits. Every culvert, bridgehead and tunnel through which the President is to pass bears his inspection. His vigilance has often been rewarded. After he for bade President Harding to board an Ohio river boat, the boat sank. A platform he prevented Herbert Hoover from mounting to make a speech collapsed, gutted by termites, not long after...
...touch with his native Slovene tongue. He was bringing his U. S. wife to see the old folks. He thought of himself as completely "Americanized." But almost at the first sight of the Dalmatian coast his forgotten language came back with a rush. In Trieste a Slovene official bade him a ceremonious welcome home, showed him newspapers bursting with his praises. In Jugoslavia, especially in his little native province of Carniola, Adamic was almost a national hero. Puzzled at first, he sensibly decided the fuss-&-feathers was due partly to Slovene patriotism, partly to the fact that...
Never inclined to bother much about Siam's frequent revolutions which thus far have never been against his Crown, easy-going King Prajadhipok bade his countrymen farewell: "May my people maintain peace and unity during my absence, which is necessitated by reasons of health...