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Terms of the pact signed in Paris last week make it operative within the covenant framework of the League of Nations, unless the League Council fails or declines to act, whereupon nations which sign the pact will render "aid and assistance" to block "unprovoked aggression." The treaty runs for five years and unless denounced by one of the signatories at the end of the fourth year, runs indefinitely. It was accompanied last week by important pourparlers for Franco-Russian cooperation, economic as well as military. The French and Soviet general staffs will shortly exchange key experts. More important, France contemplates...
...story of Barney Glasgow, who fought his way up from chore boy in a logging camp to lumber king of Wisconsin, then lost his kingdom while it was still worth losing. As usual in Ferber stories, the fortunes of the dubious hero and his train are merely a framework for a lively description of logging society, from the snowy Wisconsin camps to the over-stuffed comfort of a rich small-town community. Barney's defeat by his son, who got both pretty Lotta Lindbeck and his father's business, Lotta's adventures in European "society...
...control car felt the wheel jerked out of his hands. Wallowing like a wounded whale, the Macon rolled over on her side, stuck her nose into the air, started to climb. The lookout atop the great bag telephoned the control car that a rib had snapped in the framework, that No.1 gas cell near the fin had ripped open. Steady as a stone, Commander Wiley ordered gas valved from the forward cells, all water ballast and emergency fuel aft dumped, the engines slowed down, in a vain attempt to level the ship off. The altimeter registered 4,600 ft. before...
...operate"-for ten years. Scared were the satellites of trance (Poland Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Rumania) who feared their protectrice was about make some sort of deal with Germany behind their backs. To calm the satellites clauses were inserted bringing action under the Four-Power Pact "within the framework ot the League of Nations, to which they are parties. German withdrawal from the League put the Pact on ice but it has served to jar Europe into action. Poland, suspicious as a scorned lover hastily made a ten-year pact with Germany behind the back of France and ever since hard...
...Lavery of Minneapolis contributed a "psychograph," a hemispherical metal framework which is fitted over the head. The head displaces a number of levers inside, and from the changed setting of the levers a character analysis can be read...