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...Just as dawn broke the resolution passed, was sent to the Württemberg State Diet with an urgent request that it be brought at once before the Reichstag in Berlin. The International Labor Office figures the income of the average Berlin wage earner at 3,364 marks...
...platform. Frenchmen-as individuals and as a nation-were never more true to French traditions than in their instinctive, automatic reactions to the swift, tremendous tragedy of last week. Every moment of the 13 hours that passed between the shooting in mid-afternoon and the Death just before dawn was packed with drama...
...served in the Civil War with the 11th Illinois Cavalry. In a funeral oration he once said: "We know not whether the grave is the end of this life or the door to another; whether if this existence is our night time there is not somewhere else a dawn. Every cradle asks us 'Whence?' And every coffin 'Whither?' And again we are face to face with the great mystery that shrouds this world. Over the desert of death the sphinx gazes forever, but never speaks...
...heartened other Soviet wives to dance (badly). From a fox-trot the orchestra switched to a tango, then to a throbbing Cuban rumba. In 20 minutes scores of Comrades and their wives were cavorting like Capitalists. Later there were caviar, French champagne, rich Russian pastries. The revel continued until dawn. Said Premier General Ismet Pasha, on behalf of Turkish Dictator Kemal, "I and the whole Turkish delegation [34]; have an unforgettable impression of the magnificence of our reception...
...hour. Soon Harvard will be but the tavern where once a pleasant night was spent in a long journey. The world that lies before us is big with ruin for it has been the drill ground of feet of clay. On our horizon there is thunder as well as dawn. But the past day has been fair...