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...fight with an expanded Army. Just as big a question after the President's press conference last week was whether he was talking politic bosh with "pay-as-you-go," or whether he was about to haul down his trial balloon, restore Messrs. Craig and Leahy to command, and reduce Rearmament from big talk to a small practical matter for Army, Navy and budget...
...this point Frances May Maddux, with the aplomb of many a speakeasy and night-club experience at her command, and Cinemactress Grace Evans joined the party. So did the Duke's equerry, Lieutenant David Scrymgeour (sometimes pronounced skinner) Wedderburn of the Scots Guards. Yankee Celler raised a glass. Yankee Maddux proposed a toast. "To disaster," she chirruped, adding cannily, "if it comes." To disaster they drank. Then, prudently refraining from smashing the glasses, they proceeded to polish off both bottles...
...enjoined the Catholic University to "give special attention to the sciences of civics, sociology and economics . . . evolve a constructive program of social action, fitted in its details to local needs, which will command the admiration and acceptance of all right-thinking...
...fighters peck at one another to get up their dander. There were no bookmakers. Bets (some as high as $100) were verbal, made with one's neighbor on the basis of the cocks' breeding or their fighting spirit in the centre of the pit. Then, at a command from the referee, the handlers returned to opposite sides of the pit, crouched down and, at the command "Pit your cocks," let their birds go. In a split second the cocks were five feet in the air. beak to beak. They lit and leaped again, dancing up & down...
...leaf from the late, great Roosevelt I. While Police Commissioner of New York, T. R. once had to provide police protection for an anti-Semitic German preacher. He did so by delegating Jewish policemen to keep order. Last week Mayor LaGuardia appointed an all-Jewish detachment of police under command of Captain Max Finkelstein to guard the German consulate and escort distinguished Nazi visitors through the city...