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...Jersey. Hamilton Fish Kean, 72, Wall Streeter and gentleman farmer, possessor of the finest set of mustaches in the last U. S. Senate and the finest set of conservative Republican opinions, offered himself for reelection. Against him New Jersey Democrats put up popular Governor A. Harry Moore who closed his campaign with eight words: "I will simply take a bow. Thank you." Senator Kean's chief hope was the unnumbered tribes of Jerseyites who daily commute to Wall Street. But they preferred a clean shaven...
...House of Commons last week Labor Party Leader George Lansbury stormed for 40 minutes against "this greatest menace to individual liberty! It would incriminate the Bishop of Birmingham for his sermons against British bombing of helpless tribesmen in Afghanistan. Indeed, what possessor of a copy of Our Savior's blessed Sermon on the Mount would be safe? He might use it to seduce a simple sailor...
...playing fields of Eton, where Englishmen may or may not have won the World War, bandy-legged little Prajadhipok got some of the guts which make him a remarkable King of Siam. Later as a cadet in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, the future Possessor of the 24 Umbrellas (Siamese symbol of Kingship) learned a thing or two about soldiering which has helped him to ride out two revolutions. Last week the weak-eyed King Prajadhipok, condemned to rule, as it were, from the operating tables of his Western oculists, was recuperating in England from his latest operation...
When the Peabody Museum received a large shipment of broken pottery from Panama, students were employed to sort out the pieces, and to assemble them. As a result of this jug-saw puzzle work, the museum today is the possessor of a very fine collection of several hundred complete specimens of pottery...
...head of this latter France stands the figure of General Maxime Weygand (Vice President of the Higher War Council, Inspector General of the Army, possessor of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, Member of the French Academy), ruling an army (including Colonials) of 650,000 men. But despite his decorations, his medals and orders, and the power he has, once a new war begins, to order several million men to death, General Weygand, a devout Catholic, represents' not the urge for war but, on the contrary, France's desire for peace -- by means of "security." The French threat...