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...opposite things at once is Poland's gruff temperamental, walrus-whiskered Marshal Josef Pilsudski. On the same day last week the Polish Government made historic peace overtures to Adolf Hitler-whom most Poles hate and fear-and staged with real tear-gas bombs a sensational sham air raid on Warsaw, a capital to whose citizens "air raid" means a German air raid...
...duty officer in command refused to make a statement of any kind for three whole days. Finally the Admiralty, which never makes explanations when they can be avoided, explained that the tussle on Cromarty beach did indeed take place last week, but "as part of the Fall maneuvers," a sham fight between "pirate" sailors and the Hood's marines...
John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan, one-time Mayor of New York-"The greatest sham of the age which has made all mankind its victims has been the plan of inducing foreign governments to adopt the gold standard under the pretense of stabilizing their currencies and then making them large loans at high rates of interest...
Oldtime patrons of Manhattan's National Horse Show occupied their boxes at Madison Square Garden as usual last week but there were times when they seemed to shiver slightly. At times the 47th show looked like a rodeo, at times like a sham cavalry battle. The Garden shook with the clatter of rough riders, trick riding, polo, mounted basketball, and police squads knocking one another's hats off with sticks. The National Horse Show Association's new president, J. Spencer...
Herriot Plan. In his speech to the Chamber, booming Premier Herriot drew cheers by declaring that the British Government now stands shoulder to shoulder with France in resisting as a sham the German Government's note demanding "arms equality" (TIME, Sept. 26). "They [Germans] pay lip homage to the universal desire for peace," cried M. Herriot, "but their demand is actually for the rearmament of Germany. If the German note itself was not perfectly clear the speeches and interviews given by the German Defense Minister, General Kurt von Schleicher, have left us in no doubt...