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Upon this comfortable status quo, President Hindenburg's soldierly determination burst like a bombshell. Once more bedevilled ministers must force bills past irreconcilable opponents. From a six weeks' snooze, dormant prejudices are awakened. Acrimonious disagreements will now be transferred from extra-governmental conferences to the amphitheater of the Reichstag...
Suddenly, a fortnight ago, the word "aluminum" burst into the headlines. The New York World was the first to put it there, whether simply as a brilliant idea or because it had advance knowledge that the word would soon get there. It was not scientific interest in the light and very useful metal which elevated it to the headlines; it was its connection with the name of Mellon, for the Mellons, headed by Andrew W., Secretary of the Treasury, have long been the leading factors in the great Aluminum Co. of America, and posting aluminum in the headlines...
Handel's Hallelujah Chorus burst the air, the Grand Union Cambridge flag was unfurled from the flagstaff of Independence Hall?the same flag General Washington hoisted for the Colonial Army on Jan. 2, 1776?21 bombs burst in air, a company of Colonial troops stood at attention, 100,000 people crammed Independence Square and Chestnut Street...
Roumania. At least 50 persons lost their lives in the Roumanian floods. At Keresztes five women fled to the roof of a house which presently burst into flames because of the overturning of a stove. To escape being roasted alive, they leaped into the flood, which surged up to the second story, and were drowned. Scores of houses were swept away in the Torda district...
...Netherlands. Queen Wilhelmina, the Prince Consort and Premier Colijn toured the flooded districts in a motorboat followed by a second boat loaded with provisions for distribution to marooned sufferers. The floods in the valleys of the Lek and Waal were described as -"catastrophic." Numberless fresh water dykes burst. The enormous hydro-electric pumps installed against just such an emergency were barely able to save the country from irretrievable damage...