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...trouble began when it became necessary to investigate the source of six inches of water in the forced-draft ventilating chamber of the underground passageways around the House. Two days ago the discovery was made by an unidentified here...
Blomberg supporting the decrees in their present form, Herr Hitler demanded that they be sent back for redrafting. This was done by Dr. Gerhard Wagner, head of the German Physicians' Association, who came back with a draft recommending that "all who had ever been intimate with Jews should be counted in with Jews" and as such feel the full weight of the decrees. This draft Adolf Hitler approved but the Army, represented by War Minister General Werner von Blomberg, fought desperately against it, since a good many swank Prussian officers have taken Jewish wives to enable themselves...
These potent Japanese postulates Dr. Ito drove home with the excuse that Japan had been challenged last week by the Mandates Commission. Some of its more daring members, seeing Italy being jumped on, had ventured to draft questions asking Britain and France why they have not deprived Japan, as a State now outside the League, of trade privileges which only League States are supposed to enjoy with British-mandated Palestine and French-mandated Syria...
Brownstone Fronts and Saratoga Trunks includes accounts of the Draft Riots, the Gold Corner, the opening of the Atlantic Cable, the bloody street-war between the Fenians and Orangemen. But it is principally memorable for its items of unessential information which throw an oblique light on the times. Thus, Author Brown records that William Cullen Bryant introduced one speaker at Cooper Union as "a lawyer well known in the West, Mr. A. Lincoln." Lincoln's principal problem at that moment was to straighten out the affairs of his son, Robert, who had just flunked his examinations at Harvard. When...
While it cut short the career of one of the most cryptic of modern public figures the death of Colonel T. E. Lawrence also removed the mystery from a book that has become a source of enormous legend and speculation. The first draft of Seven Pillars of Wisdom was written in 1919, and a large part of the manuscript was lost in Reading Station while the author was changing trains. A second text, largely done in three months, was checked and corrected throughout 1920, then destroyed by Lawrence. A third text, 330,000 words long, was finished in 1922. From...