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Will you be kind enough to explain how you knew that the citizens shrieked in ignorance and how you knew that they thought the joke original...
...Heard Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange, defend short sales, explain how they had kept the market open in critical times, protest against government regulation...
Sheriff Farley, a Tammany pillar and close friend of Boss John Francis Curry, lost his job not because he had been charged with incompetence, permitting gambling in his political club and retaining interest on litigants' money, but because he was unable credibly to explain a personal fortune of $357,000 which, taken from a mysterious tin box, far exceeded his gross public salary (TIME, Feb. 29 et ante...
This victory was somewhat too complete. Within a few hours Mr. Gibson and Sir John were hot & bothered. They had to explain that of course they had not tried to exclude from the Conference the four Delegates who are female, Dr. Mary E. Woolley of the U. S., Miss M. Winifred Kydd of Canada, Mrs. Corbett Ashby of Britain and Mile Anne Szelagowska of Poland...
When asked what he thought about the armistice between China and Japan, he replied, "Saturday." When the interviewer attempted to explain that he was talking about world events and not the time of his shirts' reappearance the celestial said, "Thursday, then." The conversation seemed to have reached an impasse, but Wing followed up with a brisk right to the chin, "They got big guns, hey? Twelve inches! Some big guns! We only got little guns, so." The washer of the linen demonstrated the size of the Chinese guns with his hands, leaving the iron to rest on a shirt...