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...President Roosevelt (dissolution also secured). While Mr. Hughes was becoming New York's Governor, Supreme Court member, presidential candidate, Mr. Kellogg continued his legal practice, became President of the American Bar Association. In 1916, Minnesota elected him to the Senate. He was not adept in politics and fell before the onslaught of Farmer-Laborite Henrik Shipstead when he stood for re-election...
...loud-tongued auctioneer addressed a vast crowd of official diplomatic and social Washingtonians. The furnishings of the home of the late Senator Frank D. Brandegee, who committed suicide last fall, had been put up at public sale. The hammer fell repeatedly as the public bought valuable furniture, Oriental rugs, beautiful books and a rare collection of paintings, etchings, prints, including many portraits of men of the Revolutionary period...
From day to day the pound sterling has bounded up and up. Its par level in terms of U. S. dollars is $4.8654 After 1919, it fell by degrees to a figure far under $4.00, the chief reason being that a major part of the world's gold supply was in the U. S. In the early months of 1923, it had climbed up to $4.71-the highest figure since the War control over Allied exchanges was abandoned in March, 1919. The advance was short-lived and the pound sank back to $4.34 in December of the same year...
...arrived at the spot, carrying out the sentence near the river in the small morning hours. I addressed my soldiers, pointing out to them the significance of the situation, and gave the command. The volley was fired and both leaders fell dead...
Germans awoke one fine morning to find that all the mail boxes had been painted white and red-the Polish national colors. The Danzig authorities protested, stating that Poland was permitted postal sovereignty only within the Polish postoffice. The protest fell upon deaf ears. The next night, Germans repainted the mail boxes black, white and red-the old colors of Imperial Germany. Poles, angered, demanded an apology. No apology was given; the authorities instead asked the League for a ruling...