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...country and it still can invoke a bitter contest between aspirants. Why else did the aspirants for the Speakership begin to lay their plans as soon as it was known, last fall, that Mr. Gillett was to be elevated to the Senate? Why else did an atramental cloud of controversy settle over the struggle, political cuttlefish and squid belch their inky exudation over the contest? Why else did Madden (Chairman of the all-powerful Appropriations Committee) and Longworth (Republican Floor Leader) join fiercely in the issue of their ambitions? Martin B. Madden, white-haired and 70, quarryman by profession...
...what answer the fingers of Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee had written on the walls. They saw a picture which, so it seemed to them, could be nothing but a pathologist's graph of a difficult neurosis (The Ray-Kandinsky) ; a lithograph of the wedding of debauched parallels (The Cloud- Feininger) ; a diagram of the unfortunate encounter of a cloud of locusts and a windmill (Abstraction-Jawlensky) ; the furious attempt of a carburetor to become a French horn (Mathematic Vision-Klee). Some of the curious, appalled, then took themselves off, hand to head; others marshaled their faculties...
...silver lining to the Austria cloud is that, despite outward suffering, there is an inner healing force working its way through the pangs of deflation to the bright sunshine of economic and financial prosperity...
...dark side of the cloud is dark indeed. In January, there were 149 suicides in Vienna, most of which were attributed to "the general distress" now sweeping that city. The total of suicides for January is the largest known for 43 years. The average monthly number is about...
Monarchist batteries replied fiercely that the Socialists knew that the amounts were being paid in 1923 and accused them of seeking to cloud over the Barmat scandal (see under) in which they are hopelessly implicated. Moreover, it was declared that the Government was entitled to make these payments without reference to the Reichstag by virtue of special emergency legislation...