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...have been holding down more Chamber seats than any other party (112 out of 610). For 18 years, sad-featured, droop-mustached Socialist Blum has been looking and talking as though the worst were just about to happen-and this year France has at last felt Depression's pinch. Naturally friends have been saying, "Now's your chance!" and Leon Blum has been campaigning shrewdly, championing money and other things dear to the petite bourgeoisie, despite his Marxism...
...Joseph Colt Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins University); Miss Denise Livingston (of New York) ; Miss Natica Nast (daughter of Publisher Conde Nast). Because Ailsa Mellon Bruce had to be presented at Court before she could present others, Ambassador Mellon asked Madame Aimé de Fleuriau, wife of the French Ambassador, to pinch...
Long-boned Heinrich Sahm, towering Lord Mayor of Berlin, announced last week a great civic improvement, completed despite the pinch of German poverty...
...expensive than hydrogen, Dr. Eckener plans to install fireproof hydrogen ballonets inside the helium cells for use in regulating altitude. Like the Akron and the Macon, the LZ-129 (which Dr. Eckener wants to name Hindenburg) is designed and equipped throughout so that hydrogen can be used in a pinch, should helium, a U. S. monopoly, become unobtainable...
Hardly 13, Arthur Fearon, a puny, whimpering, pinch-faced Liverpool schoolboy, is brutally forced to work by a drunken father. His first job, bailing bilge water out of a filthy ship and chipping salt from the boilers, so sickens him that he crawls on to a tramp steamer, escapes as a stowaway. His life on the freighter is grim with the obscenities of shipmates from cook to bo's'n. Here is not the sea of Conrad, romantic with austerities, but a sea which has beaten its devotees into a coarse ritual. "What kind of world was it into which...