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...weeks ago, active Prime Minister Maniu struck a vital blow at the remaining Bratianu power by decentralizing local administrations, cutting the influence of the Central Bucharest ministries, still Bratianu appointees, in rural Rumania...
...aims, he remains a good soldier. In a dusty grey motor he rushed, last week, from arsenal to arsenal through Persia, counting cartridges. At Teheran he beamed as shiny new bombing planes, just purchased from Berlin, landed on the flying field. Wasting no time, he despatched the bombers to blow up the sheep and the goats, the oxen and asses of the rebellious Arabs in an effort to cut off their chief food source. He inspected a fleet of armored cars for hill-fighting...
...Chair, "Beefeaters" (Yeomen of the Guard) from the Tower of London marched through the cellars of Parliament. Carrying halberds and horn lanterns they poked in crannies, peered in corners. The purpose of this search was to look for Guy Fawkes, a gentleman who, one Nov. 4, tried to blow up Parliament, but who, to the comfort of present-day "Beefeaters," has been dead since...
...orders, was dutifully unimpressed. Mr. Claudel so informed M. Poincare, who so informed the Chamber of Deputies, which was then more sternly than ever faced with the necessity of paying 400 millions on August 1, or ratifying the Mellon-Berenger agreement, or else repudiating the entire debt. That would blow France's financial credit beyond even the power of Morgan to save it. Ratification of the Mellon-Berenger agreement became more imminent...
...doing they do double harm to the nation. First they send our money abroad to America, a country which has just dealt a great blow to our export trade (TIME, April 8, et seq.) and second they take away work from Italian industries and laborers...