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...French Parliament reassembled after the New Year's vacation. Premier Herriot was in his place on the Government bench. It was his first public appearance since his illness (TIME, Dec. 22, et seq.), and he attended the session, as he said, to prove his protesting doctors false prophets. To his friends, he said that he was feeling perfectly able to stand the strain of debate...
...must to all nations, a Government came to Germany. After week upon week of crisis (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.), a way out of the intricate difficulty was found by Herr Hans Luther, so-called nonpartisan, Minister of Finance in the Marx Cabinet, former Mayor of Essen. He did something which no other leader in Germany has been able to do in the last four months-he formed a cabinet...
...solicit funds for his alma mater, knocked not in vain at the door of John D. Rockefeller Jr. He had asked for financial aid on behalf of his university library, which was partially destroyed by the great Earthquake of 1923 (TIME, Sept. 10, 1923, et seq.), and in which 800,000 books were destroyed...
...mine. Since then, he has become richer and richer and still richer. He dislikes discomfort, and-as he has money with which to buy comfort-he keeps no fewer than 13 châteaux in various parts of the world-Nice, Biarritz, London, Paris, et cetera...
There is an old-fashioned parlor game in which one person starts a story, another carries it on to a certain point, a third, fourth, fifth, et cetera, continues it, and the last ends...