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...house at Hanover in a sad mood. The War had come too late for him. "I wondered whether my Emperor and King would require my services," he wrote in his memoirs. "No hint whatever of the kind had reached me during the last twelve months." Suddenly came a dispatch informing him that His Majesty had given him command of the Eastern Army. He had only time to get together the most necessary articles of clothing and have his old uniform put in condition for service...
Since orders are emphatically orders when they come from Il Duce, Admiral Cantu and his 19 ships stayed on. Vexed Paris editors pointedly recalled Wilhelm II's high-handed dispatch of the warship Panther to Agadir in 1911 as a threat to France. The Italian demonstration at Durazzo apparently was II Duce's answer to M. Barthou who had just told a madly cheering Rumanian Chamber of Deputies in Bucharest that under the post-War treaties "Peace is restored to you and your frontiers! They will remain yours. You should know that if a square centimetre of your...
...convinced himself it would not shrink, then ordered a dozen shirts. Shirts and towels sold by the thousand. The Macy advertisement was the first of its kind in Manhattan, the first anywhere in rotogravure. The idea was first introduced into newspaper advertising last spring in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney Dry Goods Co. That the Macy advertisement would be the last in the U. S. for a long time seemed likely last week when the Post Office Department invoked an old regulation against attaching any merchandise to copies of a publication using second-class mail rates...
...telegraph company stated that he could not be reached at the address given, 51 Fifth Avenue, and that the address was fictitious. According to an International News Service dispatch to a Boston newspaper in July, 1932, he was deported from England with his wife on the charge of "activities against the public interest...
...took our hands. The first thing he said was. 'Where are your husbands? Are you girls traveling alone?' "At the horse show in Rome we sat in the same box with the King. He seemed to be a very old man." Mr. Farley produced a clipped news dispatch from Cannes, which reported that Mrs. Farley had been "the best dressed woman seen this season on the Riviera." "Well, what do you know about that?" exclaimed Mrs. Farley. "I can't imagine anyone saying that about me. Why, every stitch I've got on I bought here...