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...Discoverer of the plot was one Wilson, correspondent in Manhattan of Pravda. Pravda means "Truth." Pravda is the official Soviet daily of the Communist Party. What Wilson cabled to Moscow, Pravda printed as news...
...Moscow, differing in this respect from Aristide Briand, Sir Austen Chamberlain* and the President of China, Marshal Chiang Kaishek. But last week both Mr. Hoover and ex-Chairman Alexander Legge of the U. S. Federal Farm Board became in Moscow popular candidates for stuffing & burning. Reason: "The Hoover Plot against the Soviet Union...
Thoroughgoing, Wilson also explained how the French plot was foiled, though every Moscovite already knows. It was foiled, the people of Russia are told to believe, by the Ogpu (Soviet Secret Police) who exposed during the "propaganda trials" at Moscow last year the invasion prepared at Paris. During those trials there was no mention of President Hoover or Mr. Legge; but astute Wilson has now supplied them as the missing links...
Cracked Nuts (Radio). This is a nonsense comedy of which the humor, if any, depends on seeing Edna May Oliver, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey go through their routines on the same set. The plot is a contest between Wheeler and Woolsey for the mythical kingdom of Eldorania which Woolsey believes he owns because he won it in a crap game with a former ruler, and which Wheeler claims because he bought an Eldoranian revolution for $100,000. Unfortunately such gags as the long dialog in which the word "well," used as an interjection, is dragged through every possible shade...
...Francis Pearse of London bought an automobile 30 years ago. Until three years ago, he used the same car on his daily rounds, but then it failed him. Last week he said: "I have bought a plot of ground near a cemetery to give it a decent burial. I shall drive it through the city to the burial-ground where it will be broken up and interred...