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...deep into Tibet to see what effect all this kindness, all this money had had. The time seemed most propitious. The British-controlled Dalai Lama had died in December 1933, and according to immemorial tradition his spirit was announced to have found residence in the body of a small button-eyed Tibetan moppet, chosen by wheel-spinning Buddhist priests. Until he reaches his majority the new Dalai Lama will be shut up in a monastery and the country will be governed by a Regency. Nobody knew for certain who was pulling the strings that ran the Regency, but China...
...BARGE- Max Miller - Button ($2.50). The author of Cover the Waterfront, an expert on the simple life, discovers a bargeman who combines philosophizing with fishing...
...SHOT FROM THE DOOR-Charles Barry-Button ($2). Scotland Yard's trials with blackmailing, murder and gangdom...
Tramp, tramp-the thick-soled, high-button shoes of Norwegian Deputies carried them into the Nobel Institute last week. Some of them wept large, mild Norwegian tears last year when Premier Mowinckel announced that Norway accepted the sentence of the World Court which took from her East Greenland, gave it to Denmark (TIME, April 17, 1933). For this act of Christian resignation, most Norwegians think, Premier Mowinckel ought to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead last week Johan Ludwig Mowinckel was charged with the chore of presenting the 1934 Peace Prize to a Briton who has done his best...
...power of science in war is absurdly overrated," wound up Scientist Levinstein, who is considered the Empire's leading expert on war gases. "One might imagine that invention had rendered it possible to destroy a city and wipe out humanity in mass, as it were, by pressing a button. Tosh...