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Short time ago the small (6,000 tons) super-efficient German cruiser Karlsruhe dropped anchor in Tanga harbor. Seldom nowadays has a German Consul on the east coast of Africa opportunity to feast his visiting compatriots, and Consul Speiser made the most of it. In Tanga Herr Speiser prepared a...
Last week the State Department came to his defense by declaring that New York style arbiters are behind the times. The well-dressed U. S. diplomat had, said the State Department, abandoned spats two years ago. Industrious U. S. correspondents abroad joined the controversy by cabling despatches to the effect...
First national sport of the U. S. was neither baseball nor horseshoe-pitching but rifle-shooting. Shooting was part of most citizens' daily lives; nearly every village had a range where shoots were held for turkeys, chickens, or barrels of corn whiskey. Only 20 years ago dead-eyed Annie Oakley...
Said Jesse Sweetser, onetime (1922) U. S. amateur golf champion: "Anyone who has spent as much time in locker rooms as I have knows that the 19th hole nowadays has stymied many an otherwise promising golfer."
With unemployment in Great Britain nearing the 2,000,000 mark (an increase of 500,000 since the Labor Cabinet took office) Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald faced a turbulent House of Commons last week, barely squeaked by again, with a majority of but 29. Liberal Leader Lloyd George, who...