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Britain's long, lean Labor worm turned decisively last week. Over their kippers, toast and China tea bloated stockbrokers and belted earls read in their Tory Daily Telegraph this horrid news: "In three days organized British Labor has undergone a swift, violent transition from nonrevolutionary to revolutionary policy...
Edward Foster Swift (late head of Swift...
...slashed through the snarl of official extortion which had made Shantung the worst governed province in China. Today Shantung is called China's best-governed province. Han stands for no nonsense. In his capital, Tsinan (see map), there is snap, discipline, morale. When the War Lord stalks with swift strides about his headquarters, ceaselessly puffing cigarets and ripping out orders in short-chopped Chinese, things get done...
...first round Schmeling, fighting slowly and methodically, smacked Walker's face with two swift lefts to the head. Walker tumbled like a nine pin, then bounced to his feet, straining every nerve to cut his big opponent down. In the second round hulking Max Schmeling, to his pained surprise, received a thunderstorm in the stomach. His eye was cut. It was a clean round for the little bulldog...
...years seriously went after the Canadian Cousin's subscription. The small plum of Canadian distribution found its way almost unsought into U. S. circulation puddings. Canadian circulation of a U. S. periodical holds little lure for big-advertising, international industries like General Motors, Campbell's, Pepsodent, Squibb, Swift, Westclox et al. which manufacture in Canada, must stress that point in special copy directed at their Canadian consumers through Canadian publications. Result: in three years Canadian distribution of the ten leading U. S. magazines has dropped from 750,000 to 150,000.* From this decline Canada...