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Week after week suave Mr. Hays has sought to whittle down these harsh terms, but the Commission, backed by Minister of Instruction Edouard Herriot, has remained obstinate. Finally last week Cinema Censor Hays let his anger mount and began to threaten. He announced that he had booked passage for the U. S., and that upon the day he sailed the U. S. film industry would suspend all business in the French market. The potency of this threat lay in the fact that France does not yet produce sufficient cinema dramas to supply even one-third of her own demand. Therefore...
...other U. S. men-of-war, bluejackets experienced successive waves of wonder, envy, anger, relief. In Washington, Navy officials were shocked, embarrassed, furious. Secretary Wilbur, in particular, had to answer an irate telegram from Joseph Pool, the 15-year-old's father, asking how such things could happen. Since Navy tradition mentions only a wife in every port and none on shipboard and the regulations say very little about human nature, there was nothing that Secretary Wilbur could say beyond expressing regret...
Reason for Son Tyler's anger at the memory of President Lincoln is not far to seek. President John Tyler entered the White House in 1841 upon the death of President William Henry Harrison, hero of Tippecanoe. His hand-me-down administration, unlike that of Calvin Coolidge, contemporary prototype, was very unhappy. He had been placed upon the Whig ticket to catch Democratic votes in the South. His own Democratic tendencies, consistently displayed, made him hated by the party which he nominally headed. He retired from politics, embittered, when his term ended, and did not appear in public life...
Righteous anger of the electorate at such tyranny was inferred from the fact that slightly more than half of those entitled to vote did not vote...
Inquisitor Walsh thundered, Missouri's Reed hammered, Virginia's little Glass poured sputtering acid, Nebraska's cold Norris heaped disdain, upon 17 Democrats who joined Senator George with evident relief. Anger replaced relief as the debate grew hot, until Maryland's elderly Bruce, who usually just bumbles along, shrilled out: "The Senate is drunk with its investigating powers...