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Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister of France: "Rustic neighbors of my country estate at Cocherel saw my summer crop of wheat and oats burst mysteriously into flame one midnight last week. Summoned in haste the local fire department was unable to extinguish the blaze until several barns and outbuildings had flamed upward to the tune of 200,000 francs. I, who have been ten times Premier of France, said not long ago: 'I do not claim to know the difference between a stock and a bond, since I have never owned a sample of either.' My Socialist constituents...
President Calles called upon all members of his Cabinet last week to curtail rigorously the expenses of their several departments. The State, he declared, must mobilize its every resource for the coming campaign to discipline if not extinguish the rebellious Yaqui Indians of Sonora (TIME, Sept...
Everything the Treasury can do in the meantime to extinguish its short-term debt will make easier the big operation it must face 27 months from...
...conservative character still shudder in a manner somewhat artificial at the name of nicotine. The recent Radcliffe decision, for example, blew away any possible curl of smoke which might mingle with a collegiate curl of hair. All the democratic paraphernalia of committee and student votes were employed to extinguish some few pitiful cigarettes...
...fire is put out" says Mr. Hanford McNider '11, is exactly comparable to getting rid of armaments and abolishing military training as soon as the war is over. This analogy appears logical. Since fire is an unavoidable emergency just as war is, protection is as necessary an antidote to extinguish the one as the other. Since the fire department is hostile to fires, the more firemen in any given district, the more infrequent the fires; with no firemen in the locality at all the fire hazard is frightful...