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...Mussolini!" This incident had two results: Lieutenant Guido Gavani challenged Colonel Gusser, commander of the Swiss regiment, to a duel for slurring the fair name of Fascismo. Benito Mussolini, swallowing his own pride, called upon the Swiss Government to apologize for having insulted Italy. The Swiss Government uttered its concern and promised an inquiry and punishment for the offenders...
Sitting Pretty. A musical comedy by Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Jerome Kern. Its chief concern is to rouse interest in a millionaire who has unwittingly adopted a young crook and who wants to marry him off to a hand-picked mate. The lyrics, smooth, adroit, prettily rhymed and easily audible, are its only saving grace. Queenie Smith, with her 48 inches of saucy gaminerie, is the biggest asset. She dances like a sunbeam, stopping the show, whenever she gets in motion. Her acute low comedy sense almost twists most of her lines into a laugh. Frank Mclntyre, aside from...
...present the bulk of cigarette manufacturing is done by three interests in the order named: British-American Tobacco Co., Nanyang Brothers, the Tobacco Products Export Co. The second named concern represents Chinese capital, the other two British and American. About 80% of the tobacco used by Chinese cigarette factories is grown...
Were riots merely absurd they would cause no great concern, but unfortunately they are alarmingly dangerous things. They begin in nothings and spread rapidly to unrestrainable proportions. That last year's disturbance did not lead to serious accidents or to deaths was entirely a matter of good fortune nor is this an exaggerated statement. And it did terminate in a great expense, in a great deal of hard feeling, and in serious consequences for the offenders. The Freshmen of course have no memory of that nor of the great riot several years ago and the impossible situation which it created...
...years ago the Manhattan firm of S. S. Ruskay & Co., self-styled stockbrokers, failed for about $5,000,000. The assets of the concern were found to be unimportant and the loss imposed upon the customer-victims of the concern ran into many millions...