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This decision was known when the Republican Convention assembled at Rochester. Senator James W. Wadsworth held the reins that controlled it. A man named Machold, Republican Speaker in the State Assembly and arch-opponent of Smith, was one of the prominent candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor. Almost at the last minute he withdrew. The Wadsworth machine, with neatly oiled precision, nominated the man whom Wadsworth had picked in advance. He was chosen on the first ballot without the slightest excitement. It was all cut and dried. Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, son of the late President...
...Hands off China" was the latest cry of the Moscow Bolsheviki. Damning the governments of the U. S., Britain, France, Italy and Japan as "bourgeois robbers" and referring to them as "arch-Hooligans," mass meetings, processions, demonstrations accused them of partitioning China among themselves. Effigies (of Charles E. Hughes and others) were carried in some of the parades and subsequently were "publicly burned...
Then came the Revolution of 1917, with Kerensky at its head; the active support of his regime was the arch-revolutionary Gen. Boris Savinkov...
...guarded by three stalwart soldiers. There was Kamenev, Acting Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, sitting with his beautiful wife. Side by side sat Krassikov, President of the Supreme Court; Kursky, Commissioner of Justice; Minjiniki Elyava, Head of the Trans-Caucasian Federation; Karl Redek, famed diplomat; another arch-devil, Bela Kun, quondam Red Dictator of Hungary. In the dock a small man, quite bald, about 45, dressed in a cheap double-breasted grey sack suit and a thin black tie. His face was reminiscent of a youthful Napoleon, but "cadaverous and drawn with deep shadows under the eyes...
...arch-conspirator, - Terrorist, - fiend, - murderer and - revolutionary...