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Geneva, Dec. 10--Concerted action of the major powers swept the rising threat of war in the Balkans aside suddenly tonight when Hungary and Jugoslavia joined in acceptance of a compromise solution of their dispute...
...Dead-bones had over twenty rushees there that night. Fellows who were outstanding. Denham, the school editor. Starns, an honor man. "Brute" H o w e l l, Swanson's triple-threat star. Dead-bones was a select crowd...
...last ditch in Japan is the point at which the Army and Navy, responsible solely to the Divine Emperor, threaten to withdraw their ministers, without which no Japanese Cabinet can exist. In the bitter dawn. War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi and Navy Minister Admiral Mineo Osumi hurled this final threat and Finance Minister Fujii crumpled, accepting their demands which means saddling Japan with a 750,000,000 yen deficit. Three days later Mr. Fujii abruptly resigned "suffering from a nervous and physical breakdown," according to his doctors, who said they were injecting him with camphor oil. Grimly the fighting services...
Prime obstacle to Floyd Bennett's capture of the airline business is the fact that Newark is the official metropolitan airmail terminus. The threat to move the mail elsewhere caused New Jersey's Governor Moore last week to wire Postmaster General Farley: "It would be rather a shabby trick to play upon Newark after it had spent such vast sums [$5,000,000] to facilitate the Federal mail service...
...plot concerns his love for Toni (Jean Parker) whom he protects when a constable wants to arrest her for stealing a watch; a love that persists in spite of her almost immediate attachment to the young proprietor of a dog store whom she meets while taking a walk. The threat to these somewhat incredible proceedings is supplied by Miss Wong, Raft's Chinese sweetheart. If it is not much of a threat the fault is less hers than a role which gives her half a dozen lines and a fake Oriental dance as her total assignment for the first...