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...mobilize considerable loans. Last week Polish arms plants were starting work on large orders for Rumania, and recently King Carol paid a state visit to Prague, placed similar munitions orders for Rumania with the great Skoda works. Not only was His Majesty feted discreetly by "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia, but the Archbishop of Prague permitted his flock to eat meat that Friday with abandon, and the electric works furnished current at reduced rates to citizens who strung up lights on their houses in honor of Carol...
Completed last week by the young New Orleans cotton house of Tullis, Craig & Co. was one of the smartest cotton market operations in many a moon. It was not a spectacular coup. Indeed Partner Garner H. Tullis tried to pooh-pooh accumulating gossip with a signed statement: "I wish to state in regard to the so-called operations of our firm in December that the entire story has been greatly exaggerated both in magnitude and effect...
Kelley's touchdown was by no means his smartest move in the Princeton game. In the last quarter, the crowd saw what looked like a tragedy when Dave Colwell, Yale's ace punter, operated on for appendicitis only three weeks before and sent into the game to kick out of the end zone, was knocked unconscious two plays later...
Captain Jim Wood, in his farewell to college soccer was the fastest, smartest man on the field, while other heady exhibitions were produced by Goalie Put Williams, halfback George Phillips, and forward Frank Harnden...
Kansas. Dopesters who expected Nominee Landon to carry Kansas were sure that his onetime campaign manager and private secretary, Will G. West, candidate for Governor and rated one of the State's smartest politicians, would run well ahead of him on the Republican ticket. But when Franklin Roosevelt swept even Alf Landon's home State, he carried a Democrat, Walter A. Huxman, along to fill Alf Landon's chair on Jan. 1. Farm-born near Pretty Prairie, outspoken, aggressive Governor-elect Huxman served on Kansas' State Tax Commission under onetime Governor Harry H. Woodring. Acting Secretary...