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...with FERA, I am not unfamiliar with the ability of governmental purchasing agents to buy up some awful monstrosities on perfectly normal purchase orders. In fact, if TIME will take the trouble to find out, we might discover that Farmer Hughes's son is using a small electric lamb-shearer for a razor...
...last week when Sir Eric Phipps, British Ambassador to Germany, discovered that his wife must pass a little time in England for her health, and so invited her sister Lady Vansittart to Berlin to be his Embassy hostess during the Olympic Games. With the innocence of a fox in lamb's clothing, Sir Robert then simply went along with his charmingly social wife to Berlin "for entirely personal reasons." At once every chancellory in Europe sprang to the alert, expecting some major British move behind the Nazi scenes...
...celebrities are numerous and strange. They include the Duke of Kent, Victoria's father; her beloved governess, the Baroness Lehzen; the Duke of Clarence, afterwards King William; Lord Melbourne, whose wife had been Caroline Lamb, Byron's widely-publicized mistress; King Leopold of Belgium, who thought he could control England through his influence with Victoria and the Prince Consort; Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone, Tennyson, George...
...robed Roman Catholic Bishop Lamb finished his prayer, James Aloysius Farley stepped forward to the rostrum and said: "I will ask that the Convention stand for one minute in solemn tribute to a great American-Will Rogers." Had National Democratic Chairman Farley paused a moment longer before naming his late "Great American," 3,000 delegates and alternates would doubtless have burst into improper cheers, so brimming were they with enthusiasm. For nearly an hour longer they restrained themselves, until Boss Farley came down upon the words: "that calm, capable and courageous Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt!" Then, at the first mention...
...mention. Nine days prior, from Jolo in the Sulu Archipelago, His Highness Padukka Mahasari Manaluna Hadji Mohammad Jamalul Kiram II, Sultan of Sulu and North Borneo, Judge of Agama, lineal descendant of the Prophet, had ascended to enjoy the limitless quantities of gold, jewels, silks, dates, rice, spitted lamb and beautiful women which await the Faithful in the Mohammedan Paradise. The Sultan, who for some years was the only sovereign reigning under the U. S. flag, lived on the tribute of his 500,000 Moro subjects, plus his pension from the Philippine Government, plus his land rent from British North...