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...England. Maine has already voted Republican, with confusing pressure from the Townsend old-age pension element. Vermont, still Republican, can contribute only one piece of news to the election: if it should go Democratic it would signify that a fourth successive New Deal landslide had hit the nation. New Hampshire, a more sensitive indicator, needs to swing only slightly to revert to Republicanism...
Since Munich the element of reluctance has given way to alacrity in the Balkans where Germany is concerned. Dr. Funk announced last week that the Economics Ministers of Turkey, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria have all "gladly accepted" his invitations to come to Berlin and talk further big business soon...
...Curb the reform element was headed by an E. A. Pierce & Co. partner named Jerome Chester Cuppia, who, although he still sports the waxed mustache of the '90s, is in 1938 a member of more exchanges (14) than anyone else in the U. S. Way back in 1930 Jerry Cuppia suggested a paid president for the Curb, but he might as well have proposed to move the Curb back outdoors. His continued pressure for reform finally got him in so bad with the Old Guard that it blocked his re-election as a governor early this year...
...reminded readers that the army has a "White Paper" plan for fighting civil wars if & when civil government ceases to govern. "Today," he wrote, "when doctrines subversive to American constitutional government are being preached and civil authority is often openly flouted, the Army . . . stands firm as the one stable element. . . . The Army of the United States, unlike certain other armies, will never march for any leader except one lawfully appointed and acting fully and lawfully in the interest of all citizens and holding high the Stars and Stripes forever...
Doll-like, repulsively big-nosed, black-bearded and bespectacled, Lautrec loved circuses, dance halls, race tracks. Several brothels came to regard him as a kind of mascot. His home and native element was Montmartre. Biographer Mack has tried conscientiously but has failed to reanimate this legendary quarter. He ploughs without inspiration through genealogies of the successive owners of peripheral café-concerts where Lautrec occasionally had a drink. It is interesting to learn that Jane Avril, the delicate dancer of the Moulin Rouge whose skull-like face Lautrec loved to draw, still lives and remembers him. Mr. Mack...