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...meeting last Sunday, applications were filed by the various colleges for the countries which they desire to represent. Last year, the French, Siamese, and Chilean delegations were composed of Harvard men. The Harvard applications this year include Great Britain, Paraguay, Bolivia, Siam, China, Denmark, Australia, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Panama; three of these countries will probably be assigned to Harvard...
...thunder was swinging in the other direction. A revolution turned Spain from a monarchy into a republic. China has gone from chaos to chaos. As an antidote for hard times Japan has taken a fling at militarism. South America has spawned too many revolutions to count. The King of Siam has ceased to be the world's last absolute monarch. Of all great foreign powers only the Russian Soviets and the Italian Fascists have not had upheavals and overturns...
...Hearstpapers editorialed: "But why necessarily an American? Ramsay MacDonald, Mussolini, Premier Yenizelos, the almost-Emperor Henry Pu Yi, Mr. Litvinov of the Soviets, King Zog, the King of Siam and the Maharaja of Mysore wear 'em. Horn-rimmed glasses have become international. They are still the best first-aid to those desirous of that intellectual look. The real ultra-highbrows, of course, cling severely to a pince-nez with black ribbons...
...sugar in Cuba, of coffee in Brazil, of cocoa in Ecuador, of copper in the Congo, of lead in Burma, of zinc in Australia, of oil in the U. S. . . . new wheatlands in the Argentine, new cotton lands in Egypt . . . revolutions in Spain, Portugal, Brazil, the Argentine, Peru, Ecuador, Siam . . . repudiation of debts.. . . Declared President Hoover: "The United States did not bring this calamity on the world. . . . any party which exhibits such a lack of understanding should not be trusted with the fate of 25,000,000 American families...
...overhauling motors. After a year in foul Russian prisons, he miraculously escaped and returned to the unit. Pilot Cooper later wrote for the New York Times, then set out to film Grass, epic migration of a remote Persian tribe. This he followed with the immensely profitable Chang, filmed in. Siam. A descendant of Count Casimir, Pulaski's second-in-command at the Battle of Savannah, affable Pilot Cooper is now an associate producer of Radio-Keith-Orpheum in charge of adventure pictures. Including replacements and the six Polish members the Squadron had a roster of 23. Founder Cooper...