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Through choppy Mediterranean seas dashed the British battleships Warspite and Valiant, last week, steaming full speed ahead from the Empire naval base at Malta toward the Egyptian ports of Alexandria and Port Said. Beside the ponderous battleships, paced three swift cruisers, keen Empire dogs of war. Smoke belched. Spume flew. Meanwhile a good old fashioned ultimatum was being cabled by the potent Government of His Britannic Majesty to the puny Egyptian Cabinet of puppet King Fuad...
...Swift to send aid were the British, French and Italian governments, all of which despatched war vessels with supplies for the 10,000 Corinthians who are now homeless, shelterless. Swifter still came the succor of the American Near East Relief, which maintains agents and nurses permanently in Greece. Meanwhile rich Athenians contributed generously and rapidly to a relief fund established by Old Paul Koun-douriotis, the revered admiral who is President of Greece because he alone is trusted as a man of honor-much as Germans trust Old Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg...
Through minute after minute Henry Ford watched the swift, straight, line of bathtub-cars with a fascinated gaze...
Last week, an expected baby again appeared as a news item. The despatch, sent by the Associated Press wire, was dated from Chicago. Who in Chicago was important enough to have an impending descendant talked about in print? A McCormick? A Swift? A Wrigley? An Insull? Whatever may have been their anticipations, none of these were named last week as prospective parents. Perhaps then a politician or a gangster was expecting: was Big Bill Thompson about to be a parent? Scar-Face Al Capone, had he a blushing hope ? Or was it Len Small who was soon to gain...
...Berlin, Frau Koehl joyously celebrated her husband's 40th birthday and packed her prettiest dresses for a swift trip to Manhattan as the guest of the North German Lloyd's Dresden...