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...sight that might make any monarch quail last week faced Denmark's tall, saturnine King Christian X. The great, eight-sided courtyard of Amalienborg Palace was jam-packed with strapping, irate Danish farmers in the grip of a grievance. The King, as he peered from his palace, noted on some brawny arms the swastika band of the Danish Nazis, on others the hammer & sickle of Communism (see p. 18). The mob had gathered from the eastern Danish islands, where little farms are thickest, to demand that Premier Theodore Stauning lower farm taxes, raise farm prices, declare a farm mortgage...
Promoter Jack Curley. Aided by two enormous paws, a neck thicker than his head and a strange grip which he called the "Irish whip." Danno O'Mahoney promptly won 49 bouts in a row. For his 50th. he received the reward of a match with Jim Londos, principal claimant to the World's Heavyweight Championship...
...only $762,000. Better still was the operating profit per ton of steel. On each of 3,553,999 tons delivered, the company made an operating profit of about $7.50 against $5.36 for the full year 1934. Thus it was clear that U. S. Steel had got a firmer grip on the costs of its Brobdingnagian household. Nonetheless the directors, still unconvinced that Recovery is here, voted last week to continue the preferred dividend...
...made a point of never returning to India over a route he had traveled before. Now his leave was almost up and delays drove him frantic. Absentminded, he once crawled under his car to work on it, fell sound asleep. He drove with fierce intensity, getting a death grip on the steering wheel, gritting his teeth, while he raced along at 20 m. p. h. Swanky Mrs. Christmas puzzled Traveler Balfour: in a great hurry to get to India, she planned, as soon as she arrived, to catch a boat for London, worried all the way lest she miss...
...backward little college bossed by a jealous coterie of Methodist Episcopal bishops. Twenty years earlier "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose cousin-in-law was one of the bishops, had endowed it with $500,000. Chancellor Kirkland, after a bitter fight in Tennessee's Supreme Court, broke the grip of the Church. Then, with the Vanderbilts behind him, he made himself autocrat. Several millions of dollars from the Vanderbilts and more from the Rockefellers' General Education Board enabled him to get together a respectable faculty, boost the admission requirements. Throughout the South, church colleges followed Vanderbilt's lead...