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...named Hubert Lagardelle, who lives in Rome and hobnobs with Signor Mussolini, went to Paris supposedly charged with a secret mission. Before long everyone knew the secret. He called on a Daladier lieutenant, Public Works Minister Anatole de Monzie, and suggested that he tell his boss the time was ripe for Paris to woo Rome. Next day King Vittorio Emmanuele read his mild-as-milk speech before the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations. Day after that France's Ambassador in Rome, Andre François-Poncet, called on Crown Prince Humbert at the Quirinal and chatted 20 minutes...
...stink.' " Editor Lath ers gets into plenty of legal fights, but as a onetime law student usually wins his own case. His paper has one catchall headline in which the first few words change each week, such as "WOOLEN INNER SHIRTS [or NEW RESOLUTIONS or HANDSLEDS] are ripe in the Land of Mears." He has been publishing it since 1914. Few years ago circulation reached 2,740 (population of Mears: 220), and he decided that was too much work. He got out the circulation list and chopped it down...
...Siberia, Japan rather than Germany would do it. But the Ukraine was different. There the signs were getting plainer and plainer that Führer Hitler thought the time was approaching when the Ukraine-which includes parts of Poland and Rumania as well as of Soviet Russia-would be ripe for Nazi plucking...
...changes are in the making . . . as indicated by many planetary influences. . . . Do not speculate." This advice to investors appeared last July in American Astrology Magazine. Last week many bewildered McKesson & Robbins investors. whose holdings had just depreciated on the market by some $35,000,000, must have been ripe for conversion to some such occult science as astrology...
...Hull will have to be equally cautious about defining the limits of the Good Neighbor Policy: there are bold Latin American spirits who, inspired by the absence of downright Dollar Diplomacy in the current U. S. attitude toward expropriations in Mexico and Bolivia, think the Good Neighbor is perhaps ripe to be plucked of all his property in their lands...