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Last week the chief of the New Deal found a new job for Ernest Gruening, managing what U. S. imperialists like to think of as U. S. colonies.* His appointment as "Minister of Colonies" promptly threw Hawaii, relatively comfortable and prosperous, into a state of alarm. Not happy over its treatment by Dr. Tugwell, an editor of The New Republic (Island sugar planters last week filed suit against the sugar quota he had set for them), Hawaii feared what might befall it at the hands of Dr. Gruening, an ex-editor of The Nation. For nothing does Hawaii dread more...
...trouble this morning. I saluted their Nazi anthem but not all the flags and a Storm Troop officer made me show him my passport before he would let me go." At this revelation, Instructor Woodside's eavesdropping Munich hotelkeeper shouted: "There is no place for you in this hotel," threw him bag and baggage out of his room...
...games Il Duce threw two armies, totaling 100,000 men, into the barren rocky country between Bologna and Florence. There the Red army of attack began to hammer a Blue defending force. The object of Italy's General Staff was to test in the nearest approach to battle conditions that they could create all the elaborate mechanical devices with which munitions makers have been whiling away the quiet years. Troops will advance this week under shell barrages. There will be clouds of real tear gas to penalize those slow with their masks. Benito Mussolini is particularly anxious to find...
...requested him to remove the local commissioner of public safety, the district attorney and sheriff for their failure to clean up the town, Governor Herbert H. Lehman replied that he saw no need for executive action. When Miss St. John continued to protest, two men last week threw stink bombs through the window of her house...
...soon forging ahead, first as secretary to a rising M. P., then as an able underling in a Government office. When the War came a weak heart kept Tom from the front but did not prevent him from rising fast in his job. After the Armistice Tom threw over a promising political career for bigger pickings, married his dead friend's mistress, scurried faster and faster over the Tom Tiddler's ground of post-War London. He and Undine met again, realized too late that they were still in love. At a belated reunion in Berlin...