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...After declaring that the best way of ensuring peace was to prepare for peace and denouncing the maxim of "Trust in God and keep your powder dry," William Leach, Under Secretary of State for Air, announced that the Government would carry on its predecessor's policy of expanding the Air Force. "Shame!" cried a Labor member. Mr. Leach said that what was needed were "new excavations to raise the lid from the sarcophagus of the New Testament." Major General J. E. B. Seely (Liberal) retorted: "If the Empire is to be defended by Sermons on the Mount, God help...
...Maxim, now in his 71st year, who invented Maximite, Stabillite, Motorite, the U. S. variety of smokeless powder and many other explosive marvels, turned his inventive genius upon the 18th Amendment, and arrived at the conclusion that Prohibition Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes should bring suit against hotels and restaurants that sell coffee and tea. Said he: "I have consulted some of the most eminent legal authorities in the country and I speak with their authority when I tell you that if all manner of alcoholic liquors were served at this dinner the provisions of the 18th Amendment would...
...NERVOUS WRECK?Crockery, powder and pills farce echoing among canvas canyons of the woolly western backdrop...
...knives of irony and folly. Five adventures, five nights- Catalonian, Turkish, Roman, Parisian, Hungarian-five exotically unexpected women and their dealings with a cochon international. The distorted and rapid scene of modern life is seen as if under the concentrated and sudden light of successive explosions of flashlight-powder; incredible life-histories are compressed into a few pages. Morand is one of the most individual of modern French writers and this is the first American translation of his work-a translation, which, in spite of its omissions, should prove of value to all those interested in contemporary European literature...
Regular dividends were also declared by the above companies, and likewise by American Sugar on its preferred, Atlas Powder on its common, and U. S. Cast Iron Pipe on common and preferred...