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Italian politics in the days of ruthless Lorenzo the Magnificent and astute Niccolo Machiavelli were scarcely more tortuous than German politics today. Last week a fog of intrigue hung thick over official Berlin as a swarm of airplane-riding Nazis (Fascists) flocked vulture-like to the Capital. Their meat was the sudden resignation of Germany's autocratic and aristocratic Cabinet, headed by Oberst-leutnant (Lieut.-Colonel) Franz von Papen, mosthated Chancellor in modern German history...
Nansen Certificate in his pocket, the straggle-chinned little Russian wrapped himself in a thick overcoat, hurried with his wife and bodyguard to Istanbul where they boarded the steamer Praga bound for Marseilles. Objective of the Trotsky trip is Copenhagen, where Mrs. Trotsky is to undergo medical treatment and Comrade Trotsky, still leader of anti-Stalin Communists, is to deliver a lecture at the University. On shipboard Mr. Lubinsky seemed pleased but nervous. For two hours before the ship sailed from Turkey he hid in his cabin. Reporters reported that he carried a pistol. When the Praga called at Athens...
Peering from behind thick-lensed spectacles, Nathan Leonard Amster. a Rumanian-born director of Manhattan Railway Co. ("The El") and head of a stockholders' committee, arrived late at the annual meeting last week. Behind him trouped 30 angry stockholders armed with stacks of proxies. Though a meeting chairman had already been elected, Director Amster promptly accused him of trying to "railroad" the meeting, deposed him and elected Lionel F. Straus, a New York tractioneer and one of his henchmen, to the chair. While election tellers squabbled loudly over the legality of proxies. Insurgent Director Amster listened gleefully to stockholders...
...articles by men beyond the narrow pale of Harvard life, a field until recently untrod by undergraduate editors. The aim of the Critic's board will be to express all shades of opinion, and will shun a literary, highly intellectual flavor. The monthly evidently purposes to be in the thick of the battle, printing every side of the issues discussed, avoiding an ex cathedra tone...
...served through the thick of last winter's bi-partisan Congressional struggle to keep the U. S. from going over an economic precipice. An expert on banking and currency, he packed into his speech all the things other Democratic stumpsters had been unintelligibly mouthing for weeks...