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...Schneider Trophy Races (TIME, Sept. 14, 1931, et seq.). Last week Dame ("Fanny") Lucy was at it again. She astounded Chancellor of the Exchequer Arthur Neville Chamberlain by offering a gift of $756,000 "to keep the flag flying and help the Army, Navy and Air Force in their dire need and necessity...
...largely to the British. The plan: 1) loans to Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Hungary and Austria totaling $40.000,000 or about 65¢ to each Danubian man, woman and child; 2) exclusion of Bulgaria (Germany's ally 1914-18) from this rescue party, although Bulgaria is on the Danube and in dire straits; 3) lowering inter-Danubian tariffs by 10% to 20% all round, to stimulate trade recovery...
...takes sole responsibility), 125 managers of State cattle ranches were dismissed and 35 of them indicted for criminal mismanagement (punishable by shooting). The decree, postulating that many of Russia's present breeding ranches are too large, ordered them split up by the creation of 102 new ranches, menaced with dire threats ranch managers who have ignored previous orders to breed on a strict cost accounting basis...
...reduced on articles of import whose total value in 1928 was $214,000,000. This amounted to a demand on our part that the world pay us less in goods and more in gold, despite the huge hoard which we already possessed, the weakness in many currencies and the dire need of debtor nations for a better opportunity to sell goods...
...lights dimmed and the curtain went up on Lammermoor, the story of a Scottish clan unraveled in the best possible Italian. For fifteen minutes the Vagabond strove concientiously to construct the story. He tried to recall his Scott to know avail, he tried to resurrect his Italian--with dire complications. At last he gave up and the better to pass the time looked hastily about him. Heigho, here was something better than trying to follow the Opera--the whole audience to a man was asleep. That at least explained one thing, the gentle, persistent whizzing noise he had thought...