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Inflating himself with an abundance of fine scorn, Senator King of Utah has huffed, and puffed, and tried to blow Ambassador Welles out of Cuba. Welles, he charges, has bungled the whole job, mistaken conditions on the Island, and in general pursued a cravenly pacifistic course. It is quite possible that Senator King's advice may be of the greatest value to Mr. Welles. The gentleman from Utah is a representative of the dominant beet sugar interests there; if the Ambassador will only make it a principle always to act in Cuba so that he earns the complete antagonism...
White House spokesmen were careful to explain that the maneuver has no international significance, is being done chiefly for the benefit of the officers and enlisted men. Washington observers agreed, however, that putting the country's mailed fist into its eastern pocket might soften the blow to Japan of U. S. recognition of Russia. Said a Japanese Foreign Office official in Tokyo: "It will make a happy impression on the Japanese people...
...launched into a two-hour speech appropriate in view of the German General Election Nov. 12. "Nothing so crossed my plans for the elimination of Communism," he cried, "as the Communists' firing of the Reichstag! My plan-it was a beautiful one-contemplated a delay in striking the blow, nullification of the mandates of Communist Reichstag Deputies and then, on the first provocation, to seize all the Communist leaders, each of whom had committed enough crimes to be hung three times!" Folding his great arms and brooding for a moment like a brown Jove, General Göring exclaimed...
...Maxie ("Slapsie") Rosenbloom, light-heavyweight champion: a 15-round fight with bull-doggy little Mickey Walker, in which Champion Rosenbloom flicked, slapped, chopped, cuffed, hit not one hard, straight blow; in Manhattan...
...Stanford we are willing to withstand an occasional whiff of hot air, in order to have the privilege of letting the Wind of Freedom blow. --The Stanford Daily...