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With quarterback Roosevelt temporarily out of the game, sojourning in the sunny south, the Washington ball-toters emerge from the huddle with four different players, each calling separate signals. Ickes insists on an aerial thrust, "Bigger and Better Government Spending," and Moffet wants a power drive, "Let Private Business Do It." To complicate matters further, Hopkins demands a PWA play as Wallace insists his triple A threat will deliver the goods. This is a fascinating spectacle in all its ironic humor recalling satirical memories anent Ford's famous Peace Ship of some twenty years ago. All we need...
...Majesty announced that the Rumanian Army-already larger than the U. S. Army-must be further enlarged and equipped with even better Krupp guns "because of the prevailing international insecurity." That chore done, the state carriage clop-clopped back toward the palace. Suddenly a man darted from the crowd, thrust something into the laps of the King and Crown Prince. As at Marseille when King Alexander of Yugoslavia was assassinated (TIME, Oct. 15), the usual ornate, equestrian guard spurred forward a few seconds late to cut the man down with a terrific sabre blow...
...Dolomite Alps, 10,000 Italians had lost their lives trying to capture "The Eye of the Austrian Army," an outpost on the 9,000-foot cone-shaped mountain Col di Lana. This extended so far into the Italian line that Austrian observers could spy out every Italian thrust before it could get well started...
...would like to build smaller war boats, thus enabling her to pack a greater number of fighting units inside her global tonnage. This the U. S. cannot permit, fearful of a British swarm of hornet ships. Britain in turn fears what the U. S. might achieve with a sudden thrust of mammoth ships in a great battle such as Jutland...
...keen judge of his people, Don Arturo knows that hard, secretive Chileans viewed with distaste the open revelations openly arrived at by the U. S. Senate munitions investigation (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week Santiago quietly approved as "The Lion" got back at Washington with a shrewd thrust. Several U. S. aircraft firms were bidding against British rivals for contracts which will increase the strength of planes in Chile's Air Force by nearly...