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...latter claim, and the demand for return to government by party responsibility that justly deserve closest attention. Last fall an anxious nation placed the present ministry in power for the sole purpose of presenting a strong, non-partisan front to the imminent national financial difficulties attendant on a world-wide depression. It can no longer be reasonably maintained that that crisis is not past. But the Prime Minister justifies his continuation in office by indicating the need for a similar unified government in face of the pressing international problems of reparations, disarmament, and currency...
...dead. From now on the League of Nations is sole custodian of our report." Mrs. McCoy & Spy- Privately members of the League Commission are telling friends about fun they constantly had with Japanese spies, even in China. The story goes that in Peiping Mrs. Frances Judson McCoy, wife of the U. S. member, General Frank Ross McCoy, entered her hotel bedroom, caught a servant red handed in the act of "dusting." "Splendid!" cried Mrs. McCoy. "The room is dirty isn't it? I am so glad you are dusting! Now get a mop and mop the floor...
...when his father died in 1909, has exhibited diligence and ambition as a businessman but has yet made no great name for himself. His financial backing has come largely from his mother. Mrs. Mary W. Harriman, who describes herself in Who's Who as "sole heir upon death of husband to estate appraised at about $100,000,000." In 1916 he resigned a Union Pacific vice-presidency to enter the shipbuilding field. Later he formed American Ship & Commerce Corp., an ambitious scheme for international trade. In 1926 the company sold most of its vessels to Hamburg-American...
BLONDE INTERLUDE-Bourke Lee -Simon & Schuster ($2). The publishers' first step in bringing out "well-written novels, entertainment their sole purpose." Theme: twelve swirling New York months, better than the title sounds...
...professional father, with his apple-red cheeks and absent-minded ways and her mother, whose sole concern is marrying her daughters well, are of no help. Hanny, her elder sister, is infatuated with a handsome rascal, Warmelo. Tina watches Hanny's miseries, her mother's maneuvers with widening, saddening eyes. Suddenly she is in love herself. When Alf Ten Berge takes her out on the dunes, tries to consummate their love, she is terrified, runs home. Alf marries another girl for spite...