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...approved and is said to have financially supported Hitlerism. Last year he turned against it, did not seem to realize last week how ardently it is turning back toward him. Only last fortnight Wilhelm II's fourth son, Prince August ("Auwi") Wilhelm, was commanded by his father to quit the Fascist Party. Ignoring this command "Auwi." who is a Fascist Deputy in the Prussian Diet, took his seat last week during the uproar about hoisting the Imperial flag, cast his Hohenzollern vote to keep it flying...
...Formosa, the Pescadores Islands, and Southern Manchuria including Port Arthur. When Germany, France and Russia forced Japan to disgorge all her spoils except Formosa and the Pescadores, the young Samurai's blood boiled with rage and shame. He had been apprenticed to a brewer of Shoyu (soy sauce), quit brewing to enter the Military Academy (where tuition was free), zealously prepared for what all Japan knew was coming, the Russo-Japanese War. This conflict Imperial Russia had made inevitable by "leasing" from Imperial China the Southern Manchurian peninsula which Japan's "Son of Heaven" had been forced...
Last week was no exception for comings & goings. Tatler, "society" gossipsheet, followed its old contemporary Town Topics into oblivion. An obscure magazine named Short Shorts quit. The Catholic Boy, first publication of its kind in the U. S., was started in St. Paul. Something called The Moment popped up in Brooklyn. And a loudly ballyhooed Modern Youth appeared...
Late One Evening (by Audry & Waveney Carten; Harry C. Bannister, producer). Pauline Murray (Ursula Jeans, of London) meets Victor Franklin (John Buckler) under abnormal circumstances. He has just run over her in his motor car. She learns that he was a promising novelist until he inherited some money, quit work. He discovers that she is about to be married to a belted earl. So Pauline and Victor decide to forsake the world and its pomps, start all over from scratch. Then Victor writes a successful book, is rich once more. This time a little, not a motor, accident saves them...
Reds by the Chicago White Sox, which he managed, he quit baseball until 1926, when he went to work as coach of Connie Mack's world champion Philadelphia Athletics...