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...military nature. A cablegram was delivered from Greek Foreign Minister Maximos protesting the detention of the Maiotis. Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Bey and confrères considered: Should they oblige the U. S. or should they offend Greece? It was not a difficult question. None of them minded a bit giving a diplomatic kick to those dogs of Greece...
...postcards, magazine covers, old masters. The best had a primitive quality. Work from New York's Clinton Prison at Dannemora, where are housed the worst criminals, showed the influence of Convict Instructor Peter J. Curtis, a onetime sign painter, who exhibited two grinning putty-faced crones called A Bit of Scandal and an aproned oldster taking snuff. Other pictures included a likeness of Abraham Lincoln, a Burial of Christ, romantic portraits of women, Indian scenes, dying Cossacks, pigeons, Chinese junks and a group portrait of the Dutch Royal Family...
...appreciation that I feel from the depth of my heart, for the wonderful article in March issue of FORTUNE on the subject of "Arms and the Men." I feel that your courage in this matter is doing more to set forward the cause of world peace than any single bit of literary endeavor that has been released...
...idea originated with the manufacturers of ten-cent cigarettes who are finding the increased costs brought about by NRA and the Processing taxes a bit too hard for them, something they did not anticipate when they started a vigorous price war in June, 1932--and now they are pleading with the government to let them have a lower rate of taxes by the simple device of classifying cigarettes according to selling prices. These ten-cent cigarette makers insist they would pass on some of the reduction to the consumer...
...which can satisfy no one for very long: this poker-playing parliamentarian is plainly not cut out for the Strong Man which events both foreign and domestic foreshadow. The dizzy succession of cabinets has played into the hands of the fascist element, and the Royalists have contributed their little bit to the general unrest and dissatisfaction, though they are in a hopeless minority as far as independent action is concerned. It would not be surprising if the fascists won them over, as in Germany, by promises later easily annulled. The plight of the Left Wing is particularly acute in such...