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...friends, how amazingly easy it would be to get millions of pounds sterling back for British consumption without putting a brass farthing of pro tection upon any commodity that comes in!" ? with no reference whatever to-how the millions of pounds might be got back, or from where...
...California a Republican candidate for anything stands a good chance to be elected, a Socialist candidate stands little or none. Last week to the Socialist gubernatorial candidate, Author Upton Sinclair (The Jungle, The Brass Check, Boston, Oil!), came a formal, engraved document signed by Secretary of State Frank C. Jordan, certifying that its recipient had received the Republican nomination. Obviously someone in the secretary's office had erred, for as everyone knows California Republicans chose San Francisco's Mayor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. (TIME, Sept. 8). But Author Sinclair replied gravely to the secretary: "Since I have...
Same evening British colonists were horrified to hear the blare of a German band from the waterfront, to see German sailors replete in brass buttoned pea-jackets, with fluttering ribbons hanging down their backs, goose-stepping past the Consul while native boys grinned in delight. German settlers shouted Hoch! again. Horror soon changed to fury when they read a full translation of Consul Speiser's speech...
...typical brass hat (staff officer) was Brig.-General Frank Percy Crozier, 119th Infantry Brigade, British Expeditionary Force. Professional soldier descended from a long line of professional soldiers, he fought in South Africa, Ashanti, North Nigeria, Zululand, then retired from the army. In 1914 he joined the Royal Irish Fusiliers with the rank of Captain. During the next five years he won the D.S.O., C.M.G., C.B., Croix de Guerre with palm, was mentioned seven times in despatches, left the War a Brigadier. A capable officer, a soldier who knew his trade, General Crozier has no illusions about war, tells his trade...
...Brass Hat in No Man's Land has raised a squall of controversy in England. Soldier Crozier's frankness has enraged many an old soldier, many a brass hat, many a colonel. Next October he is coming to lecture...