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...Twins Hadley and Wilson hoped to force Boss Vare to nominate them in 1933, respectively, for City Treasurer and Controller. Boss Vare balked. Messrs. Hadley and Wilson got their jobs anyway by running on the Democratic and Town Meeting (Fusion) ticket and the Republican machine went to pieces in dire defeat. This year WillB Hadley returned to the junk heap to pick up the fragments and take the Republican nomination for Mayor. To his distress he there found a deadly rival: S. Davis Wilson...
Since women are barred from fighting bulls professionally in Spain, they can break into this lucrative industry only by dire expedients. In Madrid last week beauteous blonde Maruja Fernandez, who was a beauteous brunette two years ago when she broke into the bull ring for charity performances, declared: "I believe the Spanish fighting bull is nobler than man. Man is not like the fighting bull which will follow your cape if you are skillful. Man is always seeking advantages and trying to keep woman at a disadvantage. A fighting bull thrills me more than any man I have ever...
...Hard-boiled reporters felt that hulking Premier Flandin had made several tactical errors in his last appeal to the Deputies. His entire speech had been dramatic and emotional, from the pedestal to prop his broken arm to the hints of dire plotting on the part of U. S. correspondents-hints that no other French official could substantiate. And sympathy is an emotion that French Deputies find hard to sustain for more than an hour. Flandin had referred directly to his physical handicap, to the secret rage of his opponents, had stung their vanity by insisting that he alone was capable...
...speech marked an important switch in Soviet policy from building machines, and yet more machines at all cost, to training men fitted to operate them. Not until last week did the world realize in most dramatic fashion in what dire need Soviet Russia is for capable, trained personnel. The Maxim Gorki, largest land-plane in the world, crashed in the worst airplane disaster in history (see p. 56). Russian designed, Russian built, the plane was technically perfect, might never have fallen but for the childish desire of a stunt pilot named Blagin to do tricks in dangerous proximity...
...policy for our international well being--is having serious effects in China. Although economists predicted an upheaval in China's silver market, Government financiers did their best to be little such predictions while the silver purchase act was pending. The cataclysm is now reaching proportions beyond even the most dire forecast...