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Alighting all smiles, lean Sir John clasped hands with portly Baron von Neurath. "Fine of you to have invited me to your home!" he cried, then recoiled as though slapped when a bristling, black-jacketed S. S. (Special Guard) leader stepped directly in his path, blocked the Englishman with an abrupt salute and bawled...
...France's 1935 defense budget of $792,000,000 is the hugest peacetime appropriation in her history. And last week the Chamber of Deputies upped the Army conscript period from 12 to 18 and 24 months for the next five years while the lean "War Baby" classes are being called to the colors...
...Poland, the lean, sponging Rabbi-brother of Russia's roly-poly Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff makes a fairly good thing out of going down to the Bialystok station when "Maxie's" special train is going through to Warsaw, sometimes gets enough money to pay a month's rent, sometimes only one of Maxie's cigars, sometimes a cuffing from Maxie's Red Guards. Last week in Lodz the potent Bolshevik's indigent old sister Ester was shoved into the street by an irate landlord who dumped her furniture on the pavement...
...Greek waters on her maiden trip from Haifa to Trieste when the Greek revolution enveloped her like a dark cloud. What chiefly worried the Jewish crew and captain of the 10,000-ton Tel Aviv ("Hill of Spring") was not the revolution, however, but the behavior of a tall, lean-faced man who paced nervously up & down the promenade deck, wandered disconsolately between the kosher kitchen and the ship's synagog. Tel Aviv's owner, President Arnold Bernstein of Palestine Navigation Co., was impatient to get ashore, hurry to Paris for the annual spring meeting of the North...
Ever since he shot his $180,000 Bluebird over a measured mile at 272.108 m. p. h. two years ago, lean, hawk-nosed Sir Malcolm Campbell has longed to be the first man to break 300. Back at Daytona Beach last fortnight he made a "test run," reached only 233 m. p. h. when his cowling broke, forced him to stop. Next day he hit 270, decided to await better conditions for a real speed attempt. One afternoon last week fire sirens wailed all over Daytona, brought 50,000 people running to the beach...