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...time to obtain authentic information, apparently suspected that indiscreet Republican bankers were casting aspersions upon Republican protectionism for their own nefarious ends. The President thereupon trenchantly reminded the nation that those who lend money are ever anxious for international free trade, but that the Republican party stands ready to defend those who earn money in the U. S. with its tariff shield...
...restfulness of noonday Appleton. Now they must chatter forth with the crowd or remain to hear the chattering die into nothingness. Perhaps these good people are too small a number to merit the grand chords which once were theirs. Yet that, only a person of little sensibility can defend. Even minor traditions must be flaunted occasionally in public to prevent their too easy death. And this custom of Sunday noon recitals is too good and too worthwhile to die without a very justifiable reason...
...described by others before you, the phrase is far from giving an accurate summing up of this great newspaper. LA PRENSA, as a matter of fact, is not "the paper of the working classes," but is the paper of the Argentine nation. Strictly independent and always quick to defend any class that might be subjected to injustice, LA PRENSA has been characterized by the high sense of responsibility of its editors. LA PRENSA is as a matter of fact too scholarly to be "the paper of the working classes," and attentive reading of any number, with its four or five...
...army whose strength was universally underestimated. Suddenly, last August, at the hour of Wu's northern triumph the Cantonese struck at his war base, the Yangtze valley. The troops of their "mystery army" poured northward under Super-Tu-chun Chang Kaishek. Too late Wu rushed southward to defend Hankow and Wuchang-his twin strongholds on either bank of the Yangtze. Hankow fell at once. Wuchang has ever since been cruelly besieged. Reputedly 10,000 Wuchangese have died of starvation. Last week the besiegers came to terms with the besieged. The cycle of revolution which began a decade...
Dartmouth trounced Virginia Poly Tech 21 to 0, but fought harder to defend their goal than at any time this season. Lane, who has been Red-Granging through such teams as Norwich and Hobart, was snagged by Virginia creepers...